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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 



BEING AX ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO 
THEIR SOURCE 



PASSAGES AND PHRASES 
IN COMMON USE. 



By JOHN BARTLETT. 



I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread 
that binds them is mine own. — MONTAIGNE. 



FIFTH EDITION. 



BOSTON : 

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 

1870. 



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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by 

JOHN BARTLETT, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of 
Massachusetts. 



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University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co., 
Cambridge. 



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REZIN A. WIGHT, Esq. 



The fourth edition of " Familiar Quotations" 
was published in 1863. The present edition 
embodies the results of the later researches of 
its editors, besides the contributions of various 
friends, and includes many quotations which 
have long been waiting a favorable verdict on 
the all-important question of familiarity. A few 
changes have been made in the arrangement, 
and the citations from Shakespeare have been 
adapted to the principal modern editions. 

The former edition has been freshly com- 
pared with the originals, and such errors re- 
moved as the revision has disclosed. The 
editorial labors have been shared with Rezin 
A. Wight, Esq., of New York, who has been 
a generous contributor to the former editions. 

The editor takes pleasure in acknowledging 
his renewed obligations to Prof. Henry W. 



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Haynes, of Burlington; D. W. Wilder, Esq., 
of Leavenworth ; Justin Winsor, Esq., and 
James J. Storrow, Esq., of Boston, and to 
many other friends. 

Cambridge, June, 1868. 



ADVERTISEMENT 
TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 



The favor shown to former editions has en- 
couraged the compiler of this Collection to go 
on with the work and make it more worthy. 

It is not easy to determine in all cases the 
degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases 
and sentences which present themselves for ad- 
mission ; for what is familiar to one class of 
readers may be quite new to another. 

Many maxims of the most famous writers 
of our language, and numberless curious and 
happy turns from orators and poets, have 
knocked at the door, and it was hard to deny 
them. But to admit these simply on their own 
merits, without assurance that the general 
reader would readily recognize them as old 
friends, was aside from the purpose of this 
Collection. 



viii A dvertisement. 

Still, it has been thought better to incur the 
risk of erring on the side of fulness. 

Owing to the great number of Quotations 
added in this edition, it has been necessary to 
make an entire reconstruction of the book. 

It is hoped the lovers of this agreeable sub- 
sidiary literature may find an increased useful- 
ness in the Collection corresponding with its 
present enlargement. 

Cambridge, December, 1863. 



LIST OF AUTHORS. 





Page 


Adams, John .... 


374 


Adams, John Quincy . 


397 


Adams, Sarah Flower 


537 


Addison, Joseph . . . 


. 250 


Akenside, Mark. . . 


337 


Aldrich, James . . . 


512 


Aldrich, Henry . . . 


235 


Allison, Richard . . 


139 


Ames, Fisher .... 


233 


Bacon, Francis . . . 


136 


Bailey, Philip James . 


516 


Barbauld, Mrs. . . . 


373 


Barnfield, Richard . 


143 


Barere, Bertrand . . 


394 


Barrett, Eaton S. . . 


495 


Barrington, George . 


39i 


Barry, Michael J. . . 


5°4 


Basse, William . . . 


211 


Baxter, Richard . . 


231 


Bayly, T. Haynes . . 


502 


Beattie, James . . . 


359 


Beaumont & Fletcher 


149 


Beaumont, Francis 


148 


Bentley, Richard . . 


240 


Bent ham, Jeremy . . 


595 


Berkeley, Bishop . . 


257 


BlCKERSTAFF, ISAAC 


357 


Blacker, Colonel . . . 


59i 


Blackstone, Sir Wm. 


356 


Blair, Robert . . . 


307 


Bolingbroke, Vtscount 


25S 


Booth, Barton . . • 


268 


Bramston, James . . 


3^3 


Brereton, Jane . . . 


259 


Brooke, Lord .... 


14 


Brougham, Lord . . 


504 


Brown, John 


337 



Page 

Brown, Tom 240 

Bryant, William Cullen 513 

Brydges, Sir S. Egerton 396 

Bunyan, John 231 

Burke, Edmund .... 351 

Burns, Robert .... 385 

Burton, Robert .... 597 

Butler, Samuel .... 212 

Byrom, John 305 

Byron, Lord 466 

Campbell, Thomas . . . 439 

Canning, George . . . 398 

Carew, Thomas .... 150 

Carey, Henry .... 243 

Centlivre, Susannah . 249 
Cervantes, Miguel de 
Chaucer, Geoffrey 
Chesterfield, Earl of 
Child, Lydia Maria . 
Choate, Rufus . . . 
Churchill, Charles . 

ClBBER, COLLEY . . . 

Clay, Henry .... 
codrington, christopher 
Coke, Sir Edward . . 
Coleridge, S. Taylor. 
Collins, William . . 
Colman, George . . . 
Congreve, William . 
Cook, Eliza .... 
Cotton, Nathaniel . 
Cowley, Abraham . . 
Cowper, William . . 
Crabbe, George . . . 
Cranch, Christopher P, 
Crashaw, Richard . . 
Cunningham, Allan . 



306 
516 
508 

357 
248 

397 

244 
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430 
339 
392 
256 
537 
315 
166 
360 

384 
526 
163 
459 



List of Authors. 



Daniel, Samuel . . . . 


142 


Darwin, Erasmus . . 


37i 


Davenant, Sir William 


167 


Decatur, Stephen . . 


461 


Defoe, Daniel . . . 


240 


Dekker, Thomas . . . 


165 


Denham, Sir John . . 


164 


Dennis, John .... 


239 


Dibdin, Charles. . . 


379 


Dibdin, Thomas . . . 


429 


Dickens, Charles . . 


53$ 


Dickinson, John . . . 


374 


Diogenes Laertius 


582 


Doddridge, Philip . . 


315 


Dodsley, Robert . . 


312 


Donne, John .... 


143 


Drake, Joseph Rodman 


. 496 


Drayton, Michael. . 


142 


Dryden, John . . . 


220 


Dyer, John 


. 312 


Dyer, .... 


• 3-'5 


Emerson, Ralph Waldo 


527 


Emmet, Robert . . . 


• 443 


Erasmus, 


536 


Everett, David . . . 


• 393 


Farquhar, George . . 


. 25S 


Ferriar, John . . . 


• 395 


Fielding, Henry . . 


• 3i4 


Fletcher, Andrew . . 


236 


Fletcher, John . . . 


147 


Foote, Samuel . . . 


340 


Fouche, Joseph . . . 


394 


Francis the First, 


59o 


Franklin, Benjamin . 


. 316 


Fuller, Thomas . . . 


209 


Garrick, David . . . 


33S 


Garth, Samuel . . . 


244 


Gay, John 


. 301 


Gibbon, Edward . . . 


• 353 


Gifford, Richard . . 


34i 


Goldsmith, Oliver 


■ 342 


Grafton, Richard . . 


• 587 


Gray, Thomas . . . 


. 328 


Green, Matthew . . 


304 


Greene, Albert G. . . 


. 526 


Greville, Mrs. . . . 


• 372 


Hall, Bishop .... 


. 146 



Hall, Robert . . . 
Halleck, Fitz-Greene 
Harrington, Sir John 
Harvey, Stephen 
Heber, Reginald 
Hemans, Felicia 
Henry, Matthew 
Henry, Patrick . 
Herbert, George 
Herrick, Robert 
Hervey, Thomas K. 
Heywood, John . 
Heywood, Thomas 
Hill, Aaron . . 
Hobbes, Thomas . 
Holmes, Oliver Wen 
Home, John . . 
Hood, Thomas 
Hooker, Richard 
Hopkinson, Joseph 
Howard, Samuel 
Hoyle, Edmund 
Hume, David . 
Hunt, Leigh . 
Hurd, Richard 
Hurdis, James 
Ingram, John K 
Irving, Washington 
Jackson, Andrew 
Jefferson, Thomas 
Johnson, Samuel 
Jones, Sir William 
Jonson, Ben 
Junius, . . 
Keats, John 
Keble, John 
Kemble, Frances 
Kemble, J. P. 
Kempis, Thomas X 
Kepler, John . 
Key, F. S. . . 
King, William 
Kotzebue . . 
Lamb, Charles 
Langhorne, John 
Layard, N. H. 
Lee, Henry 



List of Authors. 



XI 



Lee, Nathaniel . . . 
L'Estrange, Roger . 
Le Sage Alain Rene . 
Logan, John .... 
Longfellow, Henry W. 
Lovelace, Richard 
Lowell, James Russell 
Lyttelton, Lord . . 
Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer 
Macaulay, Thomas B. 
Mackintosh, Sir James 
Macklin, Charles 
Mallet, David . . . 
Marcy, William L. 
Marlowe, Christopher 
Marvell, Andrew 
Mason, William . 
Massinger, Philip 
Merrick, James . 
Mickle, W. J. 
Milman, Henry Ha 
Milnes, Richard M 
Milton, John . . 
Miner, Charles . 
Montague, Lady Mary 

Wortley .... 
Montgomery, James . 
Montrose, Marquis of 
Moore, Edward . . . 
Moore, Thomas . . . 
More, Hannah . . . 
Morris, Charles . . 
Morris, George P. . . 
Morton, Thomas . . 
Moss, Thomas .... 
Motherwell, Thomas 
Murphy, Arthur . . 
Napier, Sir W. F. P. . 
Newton, Sir Isaac . . 
Norris, John .... 
O'Hara, Kane . . . 
Otway, Thomas . . . 
Overbury, Sir Thomas 
Paine, Robert Treat 
Paine, Thomas . . . 
Parker, Martyn . . 
Parnell, Thomas . . 



237 
232 
247 
380 
53o 
161 
539 
324 
505 
5io 
395 
304 
306 
492 
15 
219 

35o 
146 

34° 
372 
499 
500 
170 
465 

303 
437 
169 

325 
452 
379 
38i 
512 
394 
372 
505 
34i 
465 
237 
238 

304 
236 
146 

443 
375 
156 

259 



Payne, J. Howard 
Peele, George 
Percy, Bishop . . 
Ph^edrus, . . . 
Philips, Ambrose 
Philips, John . . 
Pierpont, John . 
Pinckney, Charles C 
Pitt, Earl of Chatham 
Pitt, William . . . 
Pitt, William the Youn 

er, 

Plutarch, 

Poe, Edgar A. . . . 
Pollok, Robert . . . 
Pomfret, John . . . 
Pope, Alexander . . 
Pope, Dr. Walter . . 
Porteus, Beilby . , . 
Powell, Sir John . . 
Praed, W. jSI. . . . . 
Priestley, Joseph . . 
Prior, Matthew . . 
Procter, Bryan W. 
Quarles, Francis . . 
Quincy, Josiah . . . 
Quincy, Josiah, Jr. 
Rabelais, Fraxxis . . 
Raleigh, Sir Walter. 
Rochefoucauld . . . 
Rochester, Earl of . 
Rogers, Samuel . . . 
Roland, Madame . . 
Roscommon, Earl of . 
Rowe, Nicholas . . . 
Rumbold, Richard . . 
St. Augustine, . . . 
Savage, Richard . . 
Scott, Sir Walter 
Sedley, Sir Charles . 
Selden, John .... 
Sewall, Jonathan M. 
Seward, William H. . 
Sewell, George . . . 
Shaftesbury, Earl of 
Shakerly Marmion, . 
Shakespeare, William 



140 

598 
584 
253 
257 
492 
393 
322 
428 

39i 
582 
525 
5°i 
239 
269 
238 
356 
233 
509 
595 
241 

503 
x 54 
397 
378 
6 

13 
210 

234 
399 
394 
232 
257 
233 
585 
307 
444 
234 
152 
443 
5i5 
300 
596 
58S 
J7 



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List of Authors. 



Sheffield, DukeofBuck 




Thrale, Mrs 


379 


INGHAM 


235 


Thurlow, Lord . . . . 


37* 


Shelley, Percy B. . . . 


493 


Tickell, Thomas . . . 


300 


Shenstone, William . . 


327 


Tillotson, John . . . 


232 


Sheridan, R. Brinsley 


382 


Tobin, John .... 


400 


Shirley, James . . . 


160 


Tourneur, Cyril . . 


145 


Sidney, Sir Philip . . . 


14 


Townley, James . . . 


333 


Smart, Christopher . 


3i5 


Trumbull, John . . . 


381 


Smith, Adam .... 


593 


Tuke, Samuel .... 


260 


Smith, Alexander . . 


529 


Tusser, Thomas . . . 


6 


Smollett, Tobias . . 


34o 


Uhland, J. Louis . . 


500 


SOUTHERNE, THOMAS . 


238 


Vaughan, Henry . < 


211 


Southey, Robert . . 


426 


Voltaire, 


594 


Spencer, William R. . 


433 


Waller, Edmund . . 


1 63 


Spenser, Edmund . . 


10 


Walpole, Sir Robert 


253 


Sprague, Charles . . 


526 


Walton, Izaak . . . 


153 


Steele, Sir Richard . 


249 


Warburton, Thomas . 


590 


Steers, Miss Fanny . 


495 


Warton, Thomas . . 


3i7 


Sterne, Laurence . . 


326 


Washington, George . 


374 


Still, Bishop .... 


9 


Watts, Isaac .... 


254 


Story, Joseph .... 


461 


Webster, Daniel . . 


. 462 


Stowell, Lord . . . 


• 377 


Webster, John . . . 


162 


Suckling, Sir John 


• 157 


Wesley, John .... 


. 312 


Swift, Jonathan . . 


• 245 


Whittier, John G. . . 


• 525 


Talfourd, T. Noon. . 


. 501 


Wither, George . . . 


• 151 


Tarlton, Richard . . 


• 150 


Wolcot, John . . . 


• 373 


Tate and Brady . . 


. 580 


Wolfe, Charles . . . 


• 499 


Taylor, Henry . . . 


• 5i5 


Woodworth, Samuel . 


• 45i 


Tennyson, Alfred . . 


■ 5i7 


Wordsworth, William 


. 401 


Tertullian, .... 


. 58i 


Wotton, Sir Henry . 


. 141 


Theobald, Louis . . 


• 304 


Wrother, Miss . . . 


■ 497 


Thomson, James . . . 


. 308 


Young, Edward . . . 


. 267 



FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. 



GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 1328 -1400. 

CANTERBURY TALES. 

Ed. Tyrwhitt. 

Whanne that April with his shoures sote 
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. 

Prologue. Line 1. 

And smale foules maken melodie, 
That slepen alle night with open eye, 
So priketh hem nature in hir corages ; 
Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. 

Line 9. 

And of his port as meke as is a mayde. 

Line 69. 

He was a veray parfit gentil knight. Line 72. 

He coude songes make, and wel endite. 

Line 95. 

Ful wel she sange the service devine, 
Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; 
And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, 
After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, 
For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. 

Line 122. 
I A 



2 Chaucer. 

[Canterbury Tales continued. 

A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also. 

Prologue. Line 287. 

For him was lever han at his beddes hed 
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, 
Of Aristotle, anfl his philosophie, 
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. 
But all be that he was a philosophre, 
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. 

Line 295. 

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. 

Line 310. 

Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as, 
And yet he semed besier than he was. 

LJne 323. 

His studie was but litel on the Bible. 

Line 440. 
For gold in phisike is a cordial ; 
Therefore he loved gold in special. Line 445. 

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder. 

Line 493. 

This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, 
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught. 

Line 498. 

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, 
He taught, but first he folwed it himselve. 

Line 529. 

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde. 1 

Line 565. 

1 In allusion to the proverb, " Every honest miller has 
a golden thumb." 



Chaucer, 

Canterbury Tales continued.] 

Who so shall telle a tale after a man, 

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, 

Everich word, if it be in his charge, 

All speke he never so rudely and so large \ 

Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, 

Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe. 

Prologue. Line 733. 

For May wol have no slogardie a-night. 
The seson priketh every gentil herte, 
And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte. 

The Knightes Tale. Line 1044. 

Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie. 

Ibid. Li7ie 2275. 

To maken vertue of necessite. ibid. Line 3044. 

And brought of mighty ale a large quart. 

The Miller es Tale. Line 3497. 

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. 

The Reves Prologue. Line 3880. 

So was hire joly whistle wel ywette. 

The Reves Tale. 4153. 

And for to see, and eek for to be seye. 1 

The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134. 

Loke who that is most vertuous alway, 
Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay 
To do the gentil dedes that he can, 
And take him for the gretest gentilman. 

The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6695. 

1 Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae. 
Ovid, Art of Love, 1. 99. 



4 Chaucer. 

[Canterbury Tales continued. 

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis. 

The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6752. 

This flour of wifly patience. 

The Clerkes Tale. Pars v. Line 8797. 

Fie on possession, 
But if a man be vertuous withal. 

The Frankeleines Prologue. Line 10998. 

Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. 

The Nonnes Preestes Tale. Line 15058. 

The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, 
Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge. 

The Manciples Tale. Line 1 728 1. 

For of fortunes sharpe adversite, 
The worst kind of infortune is this, 
A man that hath been in prosperite, 
And it remember, whan it passed is. 

Troilus a? id Creseide. Book iii. Line 1 625. 

One eare it heard, at the other out it went. 

Lbid. Book iv. Line 435. 

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, 
Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering. 
The Assembly of Foules. Line I. 

For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, 
Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere, 
And out of old bookes, in good faithe, 
Cometh al this new science that men lere. 

Ibid. Line 22. 



Chaucer. — A Kempis. c 

Canterbury Tales continued.] 

Nature, the vicar of the almightie Lord. 

Ibid. Line 379. 

Of all the floures in the mede, 
Than love I most these floures white and rede, 
Soch that men callen daisies in our toun. 

The Legend of Good Women. Line 41. 

That well by reason men it call may 
The daisie, or els the eye of the day, 
The emprise, and floure of floures all. 

Ibid. Line 184. 



THOMAS A KEMPIS. 1380-1471. 
Man proposes, but God disposes. 1 

Imitation of Christ. Book i. Ch. 19. 

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he 
out of mind. ibid. Book i. Ch. 23. 

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. 
Ibid. Book iii. Ch. 12. 

1 This expression is of much greater antiquity ; it ap- 
pears in the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, page 27 (Lower's 
Translation), and in Piers Ploughman' "s Vision, line 13,994. 

A man's heart deviseth his way ; but the Lord direct- 
eth his steps. Proverbs xvi. 9. 



6 Rabelais, — Tusser. 

FRANCIS RABELAIS. 1495-1553. 

I am just going to leap into the dark. 1 

Motteux's Life. 
To return to our wethers. 2 

Book i. Ch. i.- note 2. 

I drink no more than a sponge, ibid. Ch. 5. 

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. 

Ibid. 

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, .... and 
hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should 
fall. Book I Ch. 11. 

I '11 go his halves. Book iv. Ch. 23. 

The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; 
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. 

Book iv. Ch, 24. 



THOMAS TUSSER. 1523 -1580. 

FIVE HUNDRED POINTS OF GOOD HUSBANDRY. 

Time tries the troth in everything. 

The Author's Epistle. Ch. 1. 

God sendeth and giveth, both mouth and the 
meat. Good Husbandry Lessons. 

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss. 

Ibid. 

1 Je m'en vay chercher un grand peut-estre. 

2 Revenonsa 710 s moutons, a proverb taken from the old 
French farce of Pierre Patelin (ed. 1762, p. 90). 



Tusser. 7 

Better late than never. 1 

An Habitatioii Enforced. 

At Christmas play, and make good cheer, 
For Christmas comes but once a year. 

The Farmer's Daily Diet. 

Except wind stands as never it stood, 
It is an ill wind turns none to good. 1 

A Description of the Properties of Winds. 

All 's fish they get 
That cometh to net. 

February's Abstract. 

Such mistress, such Nan, 
Such master, such man. 2 

ApriPs Abstract. 

? T is merry in hall 
Where beards wag all. 3 

August' 's Abstract. 

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. 1 

Of Wiving and Thriving. 

Dry sun, dry wind, 

Safe bind, safe find. Washing. 

1 See Proverbs, page 603. 

2 On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliotheque 
Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard, 

Tel maitre, tel valet. 
3 Merry swithe it is in halle, 
When the beards waveth alle. 

Adam Davie, 13 12, Life of Alexander. 



Coke. — Cervantes. 



SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549 -1634. 

The gladsome light of jurisprudence. 

First Institute. 

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua 
cuique tutissimum refugium} 

Third Institute. Page 162. 

The house of every one is to him as his cas- 
tle and fortress, as well for his defence against 
injury and violence, as for his repose. 

Semay lie's Case, 5 Rep. 91. 

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, 
nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they 
have no souls. 

Case of Sutton's Hospital \ 10 Rep. 32. 



MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. 

He had a face like a benediction. 

Don Quixote. Part i. Book ii. Ch. 4. 

Every one is the son of his own works. 

Ibid. Book iv. Ch. 20. 

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I 
pleased, I should have my will, and having my 
will, I should be contented ; and when one is 
contented, there is no more to be desired ; and 
when there is no more to be desired, there is an 
end of it. ibid. Ch. 23. 

1 From the Pandects, Lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando. 



Cervantes. — Still. 9 

Don Quixote continued.] 

Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes 
a great deal worse. Part ii. Ch. 4. 

Now blessings light on him that first invented 
sleep ! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, 
like a cloak ■ it is meat for the hungry, drink 
for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for 

the hot. Part ii. Ch. 67. 

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear 
it should get blunted. 

The Little Gypsy. (La Gitanilla.) 

My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, 
but enduring as marble to retain. 1 ibid. 



BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543 -1607. 

I cannot eat but little meat, 

My stomach is not good ; 
But sure I think that I can drink 

With him that wears a hood. 

Gammer Gurtorts Needle. Act ii. 2 

Back and side go bare, go bare, 
Both foot and hand go cold ; 

But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, 
Whether it be new or old. ibid. 

1 Cf. Byron, p. 484. 

2 Stated by Mr. Dyce to be from a MS. in his pos- 
session, and of older date than Gammer Gtirtoit ) s 7Veedle< 
— Skelton, Works> ed. Dyce, i. vii. -x., n. 

I* 



io Spenser. 



EDMUND SPENSER. 1533-1599. 

FAERIE QUEENE. 

A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine. 

Book i. Canto i. St. I. 

The noblest mind the best contentment has. 

Book i. Caiito i. St. 35. 

A bold bad man. Book i. Canto i. St 37. 

Her angels face, 
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, 
And made a sunshine in the shady place. 

Book i. Cajito iii. St. 4. 

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold 

The righteous man, to make him daily fall. 

Book i. Canto viii. St. I. 

Entire affection hateth nicer hands. 

Book i. Canto viii. St. 40. 

That darksome cave they enter, where they find 
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, 
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. 

Book i. Canto ix. St. 35. 

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, 
No arborett with painted blossoms drest 
And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd 
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels 
al arownd. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12. 



Spenser. 1 1 

Faerie Queene, continued.] 

And is there care in Heaven ? 

Book ii. Canto viii. St. I. 

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound. 
Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70. 

Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, 
In hopes her to attain by hook or crook. 

Book iii. Canto i. St. 1 7. 

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, 1 
And her conception of the joyous prime. 

Book iii. Cajito vi. St. 3. 

Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold. 

Book iii. Canto xi. St 54. 

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, 

On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. 

Book iv. Canto ii. St 32. 

Who will not mercie unto others show, 
How can he mercy ever hope to have ? 

Book vi. Canto i. St. 42. 

What more felicitie can fall to creature 
Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, 
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, 
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature. 

The Fate of the Butterfly. Li7ie 209. 

1 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morn- 
ing. Psalm ex. 3. 



12 Spenser. 

I was promised on a time 
To have reason for my rhyme ; 
From that time unto this season, 
I received nor rhyme nor reason. 

Lines on his promised Pension? 

For of the soul the body form doth take, 
For soul is form, and doth the body make. 
Hymn in Honour of Beauty. Line 132. 

A sweet attractive kinde of grace, 
A full assurance given by lookes, 
Continuall comfort in a face 
The lineaments of gospel-books. 

Elegiac on a Friend's Passion for his Astrophill. 2 

Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, 
What hell it is in suing long to bide ; 
To loose good dayes that might be better spent, 
To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; 
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; 
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. 

To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; 
To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires : 
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne, 
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne. 

Mother Hubberd's Tale. Line 895. 

1 This tradition is confirmed by an entry in Manning- 
ham's nearly contemporaneous Diary, May 4, 1602. 

2 This piece was printed in The Phcenix Nest, 4to, 1593, 
where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was writ- 
ten by Mathew Roydon. 



Raleigh. 1 3 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. 

If all the world and love were young, 
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, 
These pretty pleasures might me move 
To live with thee, and be thy love. 

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd. 

Silence in love bewrays more woe 
Than words, though ne'er so witty ; 

A beggar that is dumb, you know, 
May challenge double pity. 

Passions are likened best to Floods and Streams. 

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. 

Verses to Edmund Spenser. 

O eloquent, just and mightie Death ! whom 
none could advise, thou hast perswaded ; what 
none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom 
all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast 
out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne 
together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all 
the pride, crueltie and ambition of men, and 
covered it all over with these two narrow words, 
Hie jacet I 

Historie of the World, Book v. Pt. I, ad pin. 

Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall. 
Written on a pane of glass, in Quee?i Elizabeth's presence 1 

1 Her reply was, — 

If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all. 



14 Sidney. — Brooke. 



SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. 

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. 

The Defence of Poesy. 

He cometh unto you with a tale w T hich hold- 
eth children from play, and old men from the 
chimney-corner. ibid. 

I never heard the old song of Percy and Doug- 
lass, that I found not my heart moved more than 
with a trumpet. ibid. 

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of 

courtesy. Arcadia. Book i. 

They are never alone that are accompanied 
with noble thoughts. ibid. 

My dear, my better half. ibid. Book iii. 

Have I caught my heav'nly jewel. 1 

Astrophel and Stella. Second Song. 



LORD BROOKE. 1554- 1628. 

wearisome condition of humanity ! 

Mils tap ha. Act v. Sc. 4. 

And out of mind as soon as out of sight. 2 

Sonnet lvi. 

1 Quoted by Shakespeare, Me7-ry Wives of Windsor, 
Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2 Cf. Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book i. Ch. 23. 



Marlowe. 1 5 



CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593. 

WORKS (Ed. Dyce, 1862). 

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? 1 

Hero and Leander. 

Come live with me, and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures prove 
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, 
Woods or steepy mountains, yields. 

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 

By shallow rivers, to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals. Ibid. 

And I will make thee beds of roses, 
And a thousand fragrant posies. ibid. 

When all the world dissolves, 
And every creature shall be purified, 
All places shall be hell that are not heaven. 

Fan st ns. 

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, 
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? 
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! 

Ibid. 

O, thou art fairer than the evening air, 

Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ibid. 

1 Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act in. Sc. 5. 



1 6 Marlowe. — Hooker. 

[Faustus continued. 

Cut is the branch that might have grown full 

straight, 
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 1 
That sometime grew within this learned man. 

Ibid. 
Infinite riches in a little room. 

The Jew of Malta. Act i. 

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. 

Ibid. Act i. 

Now will I shew myself to have more of the 
serpent than the dove ; that is, more knave than 
fool. Ibid. Act ii. 

Love me little, love me long. 2 

Ibid. Act iv. 



RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. 

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, 
than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice 
the harmony of the world : all things in heaven 
and earth do her homage, the very least as feel- 
ing her care, and the greatest as not exempted 
from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. 

That to live by one man's will became the 
cause of all men's misery. ibid. Book i. 

1 O, withered is the garland of the war, 
The soldier's pole is fallen. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Activ. Sc. 13. 

2 See Herrick, p. 159. 



Shakespeare. 1 7 



WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616. 

THE TEMPEST. 

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated 
To closeness, and the bettering of my mind. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Like one, 
Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, 
Made such a sinner of his memory, 
To credit his own lie. Act L St. 2. 

My library 
Was dukedom large enough. Act i. St. 2. 

From the still-vex' d Bermoothes. Act I Sc. 2. 

I will be correspondent to command, 

And do my spriting 1 gently. Act i. Sc 2. 

Come unto these yellow sands, 

And then take hands : 
Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd — 

The wild waves whist. Act I Sc 2. 

Full fathom five thy father lies ; 
Of his bones are coral made • 
Those are pearls that were his eyes : 

Nothing of him that doth fade, 
But doth suffer a sea-change 
Into something rich and strange. 

Act i. Sc 2. 
1 ■ spiriting/ Cambridge ed. 



1 8 Shakespeare. 

[Tempest continued. 

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. 

Act i Sc. 2. 

There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : 
If the ill spirit have so fair a house, 
Good things will strive to dwell with 't. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
A very ancient and fish-like smell. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Fer. Here 's my hand. 

Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
He that dies pays all debts. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Act iii. St. 3. 
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air : 
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack 1 behind. We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on ; and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. Act iv. Sc 1. 

With foreheads villanous low. Activ. Sc 1. 

Deeper than did ever plummet sound, 

I '11 drown my book. Act v. Sc 1. 

Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; 

In a cowslip's bell I lie. Act v. Sc 1. 

1 ' wreck,' Dyce. 



Shakespeare. 19 



THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. 

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

Act 1. Sc. 1. 

I have no other but a woman's reason : I think 
him so, because I think him so. Act L Sc. 2. 

O, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day ! 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
And I as rich in having such a jewel 
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 
He makes sweet music with th' enamel'd stones, 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. Act ii. Sc. 7. 



That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 

woman. 
Act iii. Sc. 1. 



If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 



Except I be by Sylvia in the night, 
There is no music in the nightingale. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
A man I am, cross'd with adversity. 

Act iv. Sc, 1. 

Is she not passing fair ? Act iv. Sc. 4. 1 

How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

1 Act iv. Sc. 2, Dvce. 



20 Shakespeare, 



THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. 

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. 

Act i. Sc. i. 

All his successors, gone before him, have 
done 't ; and all his ancestors, that come after 
him, may. Act I Sc. i. 

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. 

Acti. Sc. i. 

Mine host of the Garter. Act i. St. i. 

I had rather than forty shillings I had my 
book of songs and sonnets here. Act i. Sc. i. 

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet 
heaven may decrease it upon better acquaint- 
ance, when we are married, and have more occa- 
sion to know one another : I hope upon famil- 
iarity will grow more contempt. Act i. Sc. i. 

Convey, the wise it call. Steal? foh ! a fico for 
the phrase ! Act L St. 3. 

Tester I '11 have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, 
Base Phrygian Turk ! Act i. St. 3. 

The humour of it. Act i. St. 3. 

Here will be an old abusing of ... . the 
king's English. Act i. St. 4. 

We burn daylight. Act ii. St. 1. 



Shakespeare. 2 1 

Merry Wives of Windsor continued.] 

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. 

Actii. Sc. I. 

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, 

Which I with sword will open. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

This is the short and the long of it. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Unless experience be a jewel. Acta. Sc 2. 

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. 

Act iii. Sc 2. 

What a taking was he in when your husband 
asked who was in the basket ! Act Hi. Sc. 3. 

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a 
year ! Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. 

Act Hi. Sc. 5. 

As good luck would have it. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

The rankest compound of villanous smell that 

ever offended nostril. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

A man of my kidney. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Think of that, Master Brook. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
In his old lunes again. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

They say, there is divinity in odd numbers, 
either in nativity, chance, or death. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 



22 Shakespeare. 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 

Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, 
Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike 
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely 

touch'd, 
But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor — 
Both thanks and use. Act \. Sc. i. 

He was ever precise in promise-keeping. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted. 

Act I Sc. 5. 1 

Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. Act i. Sc. 5. 1 

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 Act i. Sc. 5, White, Singer, Knight. Act i. Sc. 4, 
Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. 



Shakespeare. 23 

Measure for Measure continued.] 

This will last out a night in Russia, 

When nights are longest there. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ! 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Xot the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As mercy does. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once ; 
And he that might the vantage best have took 
Found out the remedy. Act il Sc 2. 

O ! it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

But man, proud man, 
Drest in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, — 
His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 
As make the angels weep. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

That in the captain 's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Our compell'd sins 
Stand more for number than for accompt. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 
The miserable have no other medicine, 
But only hope. Act in. Sc 1. 



24 Shakespeare. 

[Measure for Measure continued. 

Servile to all the skyey influences. 

Act iii. Sc. i. 

Palsied eld. Act iii. Sc. i. 

The sense of death is most in apprehension, 
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. Act iii. Sc. i. 

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; 
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; 
This sensible warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendent world. Act iii. Sc. i. 

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, 
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment 
Can lay on nature, is a paradise 
To what we fear of death. Act iii. Sc. i. 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 
Take, O, take those lips away, 

That so sweetly were forsworn ; 
And those eyes, the break of day, 

Lights that do mislead the morn ; 
But my kisses bring again, bring again, 
Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain. 1 

Act iv. Sc. I. 

1 This song occurs in Act v. Sc. 2, of Beaumont and 



Shakespeare. 25 

Measure for Measure continued.] 

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
'Gainst the tooth of time, 

And razure of oblivion. Act v. Sc 1. 

My business in this state 
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

They say, best men are moulded out of faults. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. 

Act v. Sc 1. 



THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. 

The pleasing punishment that women bear. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. 

Act ii. Sc. I. 
One Pinch, a hungry lean-fac'd villain, 
A mere anatomy. Act v. Sc. 1. 

A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch, 
A living dead man. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Fletcher's Bloody Brother, with the following additional 
stanza : — 

Hide, O, hide those hills of snow, 
Which thy frozen bosom bears, 
On whose tops the pinks that grow 

Are of those that April wears ! 
But first set my poor heart free, 
Bound in those icy chains by thee. 
2 



26 Shakespeare. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 

He hath indeed better bettered expectation. 

Act i. Sc I. . 

A very valiant trencher-man. Act i. Sc i. 

A skirmish of wit between them. Act i. Sc. i. 

The gentleman is not in your books. 

Act i. Sc i. 
Benedick the married man. Act i. Sc i. 

As merry as the day is long. Act ii. Sc i. 

Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love : 
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues : 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent. Act ii. Sc i. 

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were 
but little happy, if I could say how much. 

Act ii. Sc. i. 
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, 

Men were deceivers ever ; 
One foot in sea and one on shore ; 

To one thing constant never. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Sits the wind in that corner? Act ii. Sc 3. 

Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper- 
bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career 
of his humour ? No \ the world must be peo- 
pled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I 
did not think I should live till I were married. 

Act ii. Sc 3. 



Shakespeare. 27 

Much Ado about Nothing continued.] 

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. 

Act iii. .Sir. I. 

Every one can master a grief, but he that has 
it. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Are you good men and true ? Act iii. Sc. 3. 

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of for- 
tune, but to write and read comes by nature. 

Act iii. St. 3. 

Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the 
man. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Comparisons are odorous. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

A good old man, sir ; he will be talking : as 
they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 

O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! 
what men daily do, not knowing what they do ! 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
I have mark'd 
A thousand blushing apparitions 
To start into her face ; a thousand innocent 

shames, 
In angel whiteness, bear away those blushes. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

For it so falls out, 
That what we have we prize not to the worth, 
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, 
Why, then we rack the value; then we find 



28 Shakespeare. 

[Much Ado about Nothing continued 

The virtue, that possession would not show us, 
Whiles it was ours. Activ. Sc. i. 

Th' idea of her life shall sweetly creep 

Into his study of imagination. Act iv. Sc. i. 

Into the eye and prospect of his soul. 

Act iv. Sc. I. 

Flat burglary as ever was committed. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

that he were here to write me down, an ass ! 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

A fellow that hath had losses ; and one that 
hath two gowns, and everything handsome about 
him. Act iv. 6c. 2. 

Patch grief with proverbs. Act v. Sc. i. 

'T is all men's office to speak patience 
To those that wring under the load of sorrow, 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral when he shall endure 
The like himself. Act v. Sc. i. 

For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

Some of us will smart for it. Act v. Sc. i. 

1 was not born under a rhyming planet. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

Done to death by slanderous tongues. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 



Shakespeare. 29 



LOVE'S LABOUR ' S LOST. 

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Small have continual plodders ever won, 
Save base authority from others' books. 
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 

That give a name to every fixed star, 
Have no more profit of their shining nights 
Than those that walk, and wot not what they 
are. Acti.Sci. 

And men sit down to that nourishment which 
is called supper. Act i. Sc. 1. 

That unlettered, small-knowing soul. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
A child of our grandmother Eve, a female ; 
or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
The world was very guilty of such a ballad 
some three ages since ; but, I think, now 't is not 
to be found. Act L Sc. 2. 

The rational hind Costard. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Devise, wit ! write, pen ! for I am for whole 
volumes in folio. Act i. Sc. 2. 

A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 



30 Shakespeare. 

[Love's Labour 's Lost continued. 

Delivers in such apt and gracious words, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished, 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

Act ii. Sc. i. 

By my penny of observation. Act iii. Sc i. 

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that 's 
flat. - Act iii. Sc i. 

A very beadle to a humorous sigh. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; 
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred 
in a book. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Dictynna, good-man Dull. Aaiv. Sc 2. 

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, 
nourisb'd in the womb of pia mater, and deliv- 
ered upon the mellowing of occasion. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

For where is any author in the world 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

It adds a precious seeing to the eye. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Shakespeare. 3 1 

Love's Labour's Lost continued.] 

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; 
They are the books, the arts, the Academes, 
That show, contain, and nourish all the world. 

Act iv. Sc 3. 
As sweet, and musical, 
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
Makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity 
finer than the staple of his argument. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

Priscian a little scratch' d ; 't will serve. 

Act v. St. 1. 
They have been at a great feast of languages, 
and stolen the scraps. Act v. Sc 1. 

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude 
multitude call the afternoon. Act v. St. 1. 

They have measur'd many a mile, 
To tread a measure with you on this grass. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

When daisies pied, and violets blue, 
And lady-smocks all silver white, 

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 

Do paint the meadows with delight. 

Act v. Sc 2. 



32 Shakespeare. 



A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 

But earthlier happy 1 is the rose distill'd, 
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 

Act i. Sc. i. 

Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, 
And ere a man hath power to say, " Behold ! " 
The jaws of darkness do devour it up. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

For aught that ever I could read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run smooth. 

Act i. Sc. i. 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

Masters, spread yourselves. Act i. Sc. 2. 

This is Ercles' vein. Act \. Sc. 2. 

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove : 
I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's 
day. Act i. Sc. 2. 

1 'earthlier happy,' White, Cambridge, Dyce. 
1 earthly happier,' Singer, Staunton, Knight. 



Shakespeare. 3 3 

Midsummer Night's Dream continued.] 

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres. 
To hear the sea-maid's music. Aa'u. Sc. i. 1 

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

I '11 put a girdle round about the Earth 

In forty minutes. Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

My heart 
Is true as steel. Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows. 

Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Bless thee, Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art trans- 
lated. Act Hi. Sc 1. 

So we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 

Act iv. Sc. 1 . 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet 

Are of imagination all compact. Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 Act ii. Sc. 1, White, Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. 
Act ii. Sc. 2, Singer. Knight. 



34 Shakespeare. 

[Midsummer Night's Dream continued. 

The lover, all as frantic, 
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to 

heaven ; 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. Act v. Sc. i. 

That is the true beginning of our end. 

Actv. Sc. I. 

The best in this kind are but shadows. 

Actv. Sc. I. 

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. 

Act v. Sc. i. 



THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

Now, by two-headed Janus, 
Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time. 

Acti. Sc. i. 

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

Acti. Sc. i. 

You have too much respect upon the world : 
They lose it, that do buy it with much care. 

Acti. Sc. I. 

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. Act i. Sc. i. 



Shakespeare. 35 

Merchant of Venice continued.] 

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? 

Act\. Sc. 1. 

There are a sort of men, whose visages 
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond. 

Acti. Sc. 1. 

I am Sir Oracle, 
And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! 

Act i. Sc 1. 

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, 
more than any man in all Venice. His reasons 
are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of 
chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them ; 
and when you have them, they are not worth the 
search. Act I Sc. 1. 

They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, 
as they that starve with nothing. Act i. Sc. 2. 

God made him, and therefore let him pass for 
a man. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Ships are but boards, sailors but men ; there 
be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and 
water-thieves. Act i. Sc. 3. 

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Even there where merchants most do congregate. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 

Act i. Sc 3. 



36 Shakespeare. 

[Merchant of Venice continued 

A goodly apple rotten at the heart. 

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

Act i. Sc 3. 

Many a time and oft, 
In the Rialto, you have rated me. Act\.Sc$. 

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

In a bondman's key, 
With 'bated breath, and whisp'ring humbleness. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

And the vile squeaking of the wry-neck'd fife. 

Act ii. Sc. 5. 

All things that are, 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. 

Act ii. Sc. 6. 1 

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not 
a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affec- 
tions, passions? Actm.Sc. 1. 

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being season'd with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil ? Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall 
into Charybdis, your mother. 2 Act iii. Sc 5. 

1 Act ii. Sc. 5, Dyce. 

2 Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim. Phi- 
lippe Gualtier (about the 13th century), Alexandras, 
Book v. line 301. 



Shakespeare. 37 

Merchant of Venice continued.] 

Let it serve for table-talk. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

What ! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee 
twice? Activ. Sc. 1. 

The quality of mercy is not strain' d ; 

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 

Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; 

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 

J T is mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes 

The throned monarch better than his crown : 

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; 

But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; 

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself, 

And earthly power doth then show likest God's, 

When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, 

Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — 

That in the course of justice none of us 

Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, 

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 

The deeds of mercy. Activ. Sc 1. 

A Daniel come to judgment ! Act iv. Sc. 1. 

'T is not in the bond. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew ! 
Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 



38 Shakespeare. 

[Merchant of Venice continued. 

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. 

Act iv. Sc. I. 

You take my house when you do take the prop 
That doth sustain my house ; you take my life 
When you do take the means whereby I live. 

Activ. Sc. i. 

He is well paid that is well satisfied. 

Act iv. Sc. I. 

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! 

Act v. Sc. I. 

Look, how the floor of t Heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; 
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins : 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. 

Act v. Sc. i. 

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : 

The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 

And his affections dark as Erebus. 

Let no such man be trusted. Act v. Sc. i. 

How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

Act v. Sc i. 



Shakespeare. 39 



AS YOU LIKE IT. 
Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
My pride fell with my fortunes. Act i. Sc 2. 

Cel. Not a word ? 

Ros. Not one to throw at a dog. Act i. Sc. 3. 

O how full of briars is this working-day world ! 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
We '11 have a swashing and a martial outside. 

Act i. &. 3. 
Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

Actii. Sc. 1. 
The big round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou mak'st a testament 
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 
To that which had too much." Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
And He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age ! Act ii. Sc 3. 



40 Shakespeare, 

[As You Like It continued. 

For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. Act ii. Sc 3. 

O good old man ! how well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
Where none will sweat, but for promotion. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, 
In good set terms. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

And then he drew a dial from his poke, 
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, 
Says, very wisely, " It is ten o'clock : 
Thus we may see," quoth he, " how the world 

wags." Actil Sc. 7. 

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, 
And thereby hangs a tale. Act ii. Sc 7. 

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. 

Act ii. Sc. 7. 
Motley 's the only wear. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

If ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it : and in his brain, 
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit 
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd 
With observation, the which he vents 
In mangled forms. Act ii. Sc. 7. 



Shakespeare. 4 1 

As You Like It continued.] 

I must have liberty 
Withal, as large a charter as the wind 3 
To blow on whom I please. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

The why is plain as way to parish church. 

Actii. Sc. 7. 

All the world 's a stage 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, — 
His Acts being seven ages. At first, the Infant, 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. 
Then the whining School-boy, with his satchel 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a Soldier, 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard ; 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble Reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the 

Justice, 
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances, — 
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and slipper' d Pantaloon, 
With spectacle on nose and pouch on side ; 
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, 
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 



42 Shakespeare. 

[As You Like It continued. 

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
Is second childishness and mere oblivion ; 
S#ns teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans — every- 
thing. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude. Act ii. Sc 7. 

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd ? 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful 
wonderful ! and yet again wonderful, and after 
that out of all whooping. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Every one fault seeming monstrous, till his 
fellow-fault came to match it. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Neither rhyme nor reason can express how 
much. 1 Act iii. Sc 2. 

Truly, I would the gods had made thee poet- 
ical. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Down on your knees, 

And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's 

love. Act iii. Sc 5. 

It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded 

of many simples, extracted from many objects, 

and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my 

1 See Proverbs, p. 609. 



Shakespeare. 43 

As You Like It continued.] 

travels, in which my often rumination wraps me 
in a most humorous sadness. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I had rather have a fool to make me merry, 
than experience to make me sad. Activ. Sc 1. 

Very good orators, when they are out, they 
will spit. Activ. Sc. 1. 

Men have died from time to time, and worms 
have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Men are April when they woo, December 
when they wed. Act iv. Sc 1. 

Pacing through the forest, 
Chewing the food 1 of sweet and bitter fancy. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
No sooner met, but they looked ; no sooner 
looked, but they loved ; no sooner loved, but 
they sighed ; no sooner sighed, but they asked 
one another the reason. Act v. Sc. 2. 

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
through another man's eyes ! Act v. Sc 2. 

An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. 

Act v. Sc 4. 
The Retort Courteous Lie Circum- 
stantial, and the Lie Direct. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue 
m V' Ad v. Sc. 4. 

Good wine needs no bush. Epilogue. 

1 ' cud,' Dyce, Staunton. 



44 Shakespeare. 



THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. 

As Stephen Sly, and old John Naps of Greece, 
And Peter Turf, and Henry Pimpernell ; 
And twenty more such names and men as these, 
Which never were, nor no man ever saw. 

Induction, Sc. 2. 

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en • 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

There 's small choice in rotten apples. 

Act i. Sc i. 

Tush ! tush ! fear boys with bugs. Act i. Sc 2. 

And do as adversaries do in law, — 
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
And thereby hangs a tale. 1 Act iv. St. 1. 

My cake is dough. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Intolerable, not to be endured. Act v. Sc. 2. 

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband. 

Actv. Sc. 2. 

1 Othello, Act iii. Sc. 1. Merry Wives of Windsor, 
Act i. Sc. 4. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7. 



Shakespeare. 45 

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, 

It were all one 
That I should love a bright particular star, 
And think to wed it. Aai. Sc. 1. 

The hind that would be mated by the lion 
Must die for love. Aai. Sc. 1. 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 

Which we ascribe to Heaven. Aai. Sc. 1. 

He must needs go that the Devil drives. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

My friends were poor but honest. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 
Where most it promises. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by th' doer's deed. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good 
and ill together. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Whose words all ears took captive. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Praising what is lost 
Makes the remembrance dear. Act v. Sc. 3. 

The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
All impediments in fancy's course 
Are motives of more fancy. Act v. Sc. 3. 



46 Shakespeare. 



TWELFTH NIGHT. 

If music be the food of love, play on ; 

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 

The appetite may sicken, and so die. 

That strain again ; it had a dying fall : 

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, 

That breathes upon a bank of violets, 

Stealing and giving odour. Act i. Sc 1. 

I am sure care 's an enemy to life. Act i. Sc. 3. 

'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

Journeys end in lovers' meeting 
Every wise man's son doth know. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

He does it with a better grace, but I do it 
more natural. Act ii. Sc 3. 

Sir To. Dost thou think, because thou art 
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale ? 

Clo. Yes, by Saint Anne \ and ginger shall 
be hot i' the mouth too. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself : so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart, 
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unnrm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, 
Than women's are. Act ii. Sc. 4. 



Shakespeare. 47 

Twelfth Night continued.] 

And dallies with the innocence of love, 
Like the old age. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

She never told her love ; 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 
She sat, like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

I am all the daughters of my father's house, 
And all the brothers too. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

An you had any eye behind you, you might 
see more detraction at your heels than fortune 
before you. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, 
and some have greatness thrust upon them. 

Act ii. Sc. 5. 
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Let there be gall enough in thy ink ; though 
thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. 

Act iii. Sic. 2. 

Why, this is very Midsummer madness. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 



48 Shakespeare, 

[Twelfth Night continued. 

An I thought he had been valiant, and so cun- 
ning in fence, I 'd have seen him damned ere I 'd 
have challenged him. Act iii. Sc. 4. 1 

Clo. What is the opinion of Pythagoras con- 
cerning wild-fowl ? 

Mai. That the soul of our grandam might 
haply inhabit a bird. 

Clo. What thinkest thou of his opinion ? 

Mai. I think nobly of the soul, and no way 
approve his opinion. Act iv. Sc 2. 

Thus the whirligig of Time brings in his re- 
venges. Act v. Sc. 1. 



THE WINTER'S TALE. 

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath. Act iv. Sc. 3- 2 

When you do dance, I wish you 
A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that. Act iv. Sc 3.2 

1 Sc. 5, Dyce. 2 Sc. 4, Cambridge ed. 



Shakespeare. 49 

KING JOHN. 

Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
And if his name be George, I '11 call him Peter; 

len's name 

Act i. Sc. 1. 



For new-made honour doth forget men's names. 



For he is but a bastard to the time, 
That doth not smack of observation. 

Acti. Sc. r. 

Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 

For courage mounteth with occasion. 

Act ii. Sc. I. 

I would that I were low laid in my grave ; 
I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

St. George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er 

since 
Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, 
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs ! 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

Here I and sorrows sit ; 
Here is my throne ; bid kings come bow to it. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 2 

1 Sc. 2, Singer, Staunton, Knight. Sc. 1, White, Dyce, 
Cambridge. 

2 Act ii. Sc. 2, White. 

3 



50 Shakespeare. 

[King John continued. 

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward ; 
Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight 
But when her humorous ladyship is by 
To teach thee safety ! Actm. Sc. i. 

Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

When Fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

And he that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

How now, foolish rheum ! Activ. Sc. 1. 

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 



Shakespeare, 5 1 

King John continued.] 

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, 
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, 
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Another lean, unwash'd artificer. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 
Makes ill deeds done ! Act iv. St. 2. 

Mocking the air with colours idly spread. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

This England never did, nor never shall, 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. 

Act v. Sc. 7. 

Come the three corners of the world in arms, 
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make 

us rue, 
If England to itself do rest but true. 

Act v. St. 7. 



52 Shakespeare. 



KING RICHARD II. 

All places that the eye of heaven visits 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. 

Act i. Sc 3. 

O, who can hold a fire in his hand 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 
By bare imagination of a feast ? 
Or wallow naked in December snow, 
By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat. 
O, no ! the apprehension of the good 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, 
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, 
This other Eden, demi-paradise ; 
This fortress, built by Nature for herself, 
Against infection and the hand of war ; 
This happy breed of men, this little world, 
This precious stone set in the silver sea, 
Which serves it in the office of a wall, 
Or as a moat defensive to a house, 
Against the envy of less happier lands ; 
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this 
England. Act 11. Sc. 1. 

The ripest fruit first falls. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Shakespeare. 5 3 

King Richard II. continued.] 

Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

And nothing can we call our own but death, 
And that small model of the barren earth 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 
For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, 
And tell sad stories of the death of kings. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

He is come to ope 
The purple testament of bleeding war. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

And my large kingdom for a little grave, 
A little little grave, an obscure grave. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Gave 
His body to that pleasant country's earth, 
And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ, 
Under whose colours he had fought so long. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

A mockery king of snow. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, 
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
Thinking his prattle to be tedious. Act v. St. 2. 



54 Shakespeare. 

KING HENRY IV., PART I. 

In those holy fields, 
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet 
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd, 
For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 

Acti. Sc. i. 

Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, min- 
ions of the moon. Act i. Sc 2. 

Old father antic the law. Act i. Sc 2. 

Thou hast damnable iteration. Act i. St. 2. 

And now am I, if a man should speak truly, 
little better than one of the wicked. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

*T is my vocation, Hal ; \ is no sin for a man 
to labour in his vocation. Act\. Sc. 2. 

He will give the Devil his due. Act i. Sc 2. 

There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good 
fellowship in thee. Act i. St. 2. 

If all the year were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, 

Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; 

He was perfumed like a milliner, 

And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held 

A pouncet-box, which ever and anon 

He gave his nose, and took 't away again. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 



Shakespeare. 5 5 

King Henry IV., Part I., continued.] 

And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, 
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, 
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse 
Betwixt the wind and his nobility. Act i. Sc 3. 

And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth 

Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; 

And that it w r as great pity, so it was, 

This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd 

Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, 

Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd 

So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, 

He would himself have been a soldier. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

The blood more stirs 

To rouse a lion than to start a hare ! 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

By Heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, 

To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, 

Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 

Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 

And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

I know a trick worth two of that. 

Act ii. Sc. I. 

If the rascal have not given me medicines to 

make me love him, I ? 11 be hanged. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

It would be argument for a w^eek, laughter for 
a month, and a good jest forever. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Falstaff sweats to death, 
And lards the lean earth as he walks along. 

Act ii. Sc 2. 



56 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry IV., Part I., continued. 

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 
safety. Act ii. Sc 3. 

Brain him with his lady's fan. Act ii. St. 3. 

A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. ■ 

A plague of all cowards, I say. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Call you that backing of your friends? A 
plague upon such backing ! Act ii. Sc 4. 

I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. Act ii. St. 4. 

Thou knowest my old ward : here I lay, and 
thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram 
let drive at me. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Give you a reason on compulsion ! If reasons 
were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no 
man a reason upon compulsion. Act ii. St. 4. 

Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

I was a coward on instinct. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me ! 

Act ii. Sc 4. 

A plague of sighing and grief ! it blows a man 
up like a bladder. Act ii. St. 4. 

In King Cambyses' vein. Act ii. Sc 4. 

Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 



Shakespeare, 5 7 

King Henry IV., Part I., continued.] 

O monstrous ! but one half-pennyworth of 
bread to this intolerable deal of sack ! 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 

In strange eruptions. Aaiii. Sc. 1. 

I am not in the roll of common men. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man \ 
But will they come when you do call for them ? 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, 
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 
But, in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I '11 cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

A good mouth-filling oath. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 
More than a little is by much too much. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a 
church is made of, I am a pepper-corn. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

3* 



5 8 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry IV., Part I., continued. 

Rob me the exchequer. Act Hi. Sc. 3. 

This sickness doth infect 
The very life-blood of our enterprise. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

That darT'd the world aside, 
And bid it pass. Act iv. Sc* 1. 

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, 
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, 
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, 
And vaulted with such ease into his seat, 
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, 
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, 
And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

A mad fellow met me on the way, and told 
me I had unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed 
the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scare- 
crows. I '11 not march through Coventry with 
them, that 's flat : nay, and the villains march 
wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on ; 
for, indeed, I had the most of them out of prison. 
There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company ; 
and the half-shirt is two napkins, tacked together 
and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's 
coat without sleeves. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Food for powder, food for powder ; they '11 fill 
a pit as well as better. Act iv. 6c. 2. 



Shakespeare. 59 

King Henry IV., Part I., continued.] 

I would it were bedtime, Hal, and all well. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if hon- 
our prick me off when I come on ? how then ? 
Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? 
No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. 
Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. 
What is honour ? A word. What is that word, 
honour? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath 
it ? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel 
it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insen- 
sible, then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not 
live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction 
will not suffer it : therefore, I '11 none of it : 
honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my 
catechism. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

Act v. Sc. 4 

I could have better spared a better man. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

The better part of valour is discretion. 

Act v. Sc 4. 

Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying ! 
I grant you I was down and out of breath, and 
so was he ; but we rose both at an instant, and 
fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

Purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 



6o Shakespeare. 



KING HENRY IV., PART II. 

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, 
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 
And would have told him, half his Troy was 

burn'd. Act i. Sc i. 

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remembered knolling a departed friend. 

Act i. Sc. i. 
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause 
that wit is in other men. Ad i. Sc 2. 

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the 
saltness of time. Act i. Sc. 2. 

We that are in the vaward of our youth. 

Ad i. Sc. 2. 

For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing 

and singing of anthems. Act i. St. 2. 

If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. 

Act i. Sc 2. 

I '11 tickle your catastrophe. Act ii. St. 1. 

He hath eaten me out of house and home. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Thus we play the fools with the time, and the 
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 



Shakespeare. 6 1 

King Henry IV., Part II., continued.] 

He was, indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Sleep ! O gentle sleep ! 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

With all appliances and means to boot. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all : 
all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at 
Stamford fair ? Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Accommodated : that is, when a man is, as 
they say, accommodated; or when a man is — 
being — whereby — he may be thought to be 
accommodated ; which is an excellent thing. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

We have heard the chimes at midnight. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Like a man made after supper of a cheese- 
paring : when he was naked, he was, for all the 
world, like a forked radish, with a head fan- 
tastically carved upon it with a knife. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 



62 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry IV., Part II., continued 

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 

Open as day for melting charity. Act iv. Sc 4. 

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 

Act iv- Sc. 4. 

A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny 
kickshaws, tell William cook. Act v. St. 1. 

A foutra for the world and worldlings base ! 
I speak of Africa and golden joys. Act v. St. 3. 

Under which king, Bezonian ? speak, or die. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 



KING HENRY V. 

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend 
The brightest heaven of invention ! 

Chorus. 

Consideration, like an angel, came 

And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him. 

Act i. Sc. I. 
Turn him to any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
Familiar as his garter : that, when he speaks, 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

I dare not fight ; but I will wink, and hold 
out my iron. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Base is the slave that pays. Act ii. St. 1. 



Shakespeare. 63 

King Henry V. continued.] 

His nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a bab- 
bled of green fields. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 

As self-neglecting. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once 

more, 
Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man 
As modest stillness and humility ; 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger : 
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
Straining upon the start. Act iii. Sc, 1. 

I thought upon one pair of English legs 

Did inarch three Frenchmen. Act iii. Sc. 6. 

You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that 
dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. 

Act iii. Sc. 7. 1 

The hum of either army stilly sounds, 
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive 
The secret whispers of each other's watch. 
Fire answers fire ; and through their paly flames 

1 Act iii. Sc. 6, Dyce. 



64 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry V. continued. 

Each battle sees the other's umbered face. 
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs 
Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, 
The armourers, accomplishing the knights, 
With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
Give dreadful note of preparation. 

Act iv. Chorus. 

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every 
subject's soul is his own. Act'vt. Sc. 1. 

That 's a perilous shot out of an elder gun. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread. 

Act iv. Sc. I. 

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : 
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named, 
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Then shall our names, 
Familiar in their mouths 1 as household words, — 
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, 
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, — 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1 ' in his mouth,' White, Cambridge, Knight. 



Shakespeare. 65 

[King Henry V. continued. 

In the universal 'orld, or in France, or in Eng- 
land. Act iv. Sc. 8. 

There is occasions and causes why and where- 
fore in all things. Act v. Sc 1. - 

If he be not fellow with the best king, thou 
shalt find the best king of good fellows. 

Act v. Sc, 2. 



KING HENRY VI., PART I. 

Hung be the heavens with black. Acti. Sc 1. 

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, 
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, 
Between two horses, which doth bear him best, 
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, 
I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment; 
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. 

Act ii. Sc 4. 

She 's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore to be won. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 



66 Shakespeare, 



KING HENRY VI., PART II. 

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, 
I 'd set my ten commandments * in your face. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? 
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just \ 
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 2 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

He dies, and makes no sign. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

There shall be, in England, seven half-penny 
loaves sold for a penny : the three-hooped pot 
shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony 
to drink small beer. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin 
of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? 
that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo 
a man ? Act iv. Sc, 2. 

Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, 
and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 



2 



1 See Proverbs, p. 610. 

I 'm armed with more than complete steel, 

The justice of my quarrel. 

Lust's Dominion. 



Shakespeare. 6 J 

King Henry VI., Part II., continued.] 

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the 
youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : 
and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other 
books but the score and the tally, thou hast 
caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the 
King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a 
paper-mill. Act iv. Sc 7. 



KING HENRY VI., PART III. 

How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, 

Within whose circuit is Elysium, 

And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. 

Act i. Sc 2. 

And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber d oak. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 

Act ii. Sc, 2. 

Things ill got had ever bad success, 
And happy always was it for that son 
Whose father, for his hoarding, went to hell ? 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

A little fire is quickly trodden out, 
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 

Act iv. Sc. 8. 

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind : 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Act v. Sc. 6 



68 Shakespeare, 



KING RICHARD III. 

Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York, 
And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ; 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; 
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, 
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. 
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled 
front. Act i. St. i. 

I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time 
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, 
And that so lamely and unfashionable 
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them, — 
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time. 

Act i. St. I. 

To leave this keen encounter of our wits. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? 
Was ever woman in this humour won ? 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Framed in the prodigality of nature. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 



Shakespeare. 69 

King Richard III. continued.] 

And thus I clothe my naked villany 
With old odd ends, stol'n out of 1 holy writ, 
And seem a saint, when most I play the Devil. 

Act i. Sc, 3. 

O, I have pass'd a miserable night, 
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, 
That, as I am a Christian faithful man, 
I would not spend another such a night, 
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

O Lord, methought, what pain it was to drown! 
What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! 
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! 
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks ; 
A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon ; 
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, 
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, 
All scattered in the bottom of the sea : 
Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes 
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, 
As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

So wise so young, they say, do ne'er live long. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Off with his head ! 2 Act iii. Sc. 4. ; 

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready with every nod to tumble down. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1 ' stol'n forth,' White, Knight. 

2 Cf. Cibber, p. 248. 



yo Shakespeare. 

[King Richard III. continued. 

Even in the afternoon of her best days. 

Act iii. Sc. 7. 
Thou troublest me : I am not in the vein. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. 

Act iv. St. 3. 
Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women 
Rail on the Lord's anointed. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

Tetchy and wayward. Act iv. Sc 4. 

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 

Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Thus far into the bowels of the land 
Have we march'd on without impediment. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings ; 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

The king's name is a tower of strength. 1 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me ! 

Act v. St. 3. 

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 

Act v. Sc 3. 

1 The name of the Lord is a strong tower. 

Prov. xviii. 10. 



Shakespeare. 71 

King Richard III. continued,] 

By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night 
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard 
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. 

Act v. Sc 3. 

The self-same heaven 
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

A thing devised by the enemy. 1 Act v. Sc 3. 

A horse ! a horse ! My kingdom for a horse ! 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 
I think there be six Richmonds in the field. 

Act v. St. 4. 



KING HENRY VIII. 

Order gave each thing view. Act i. St. 1. 

This bold bad man. 2 Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Verily 
I swear, 't is better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. Act ii. St. 3. 

1 Cf. Cibber, p. 249. 

2 Cf. Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book i. Ch. i. St. 37, 
and Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act iv. 
Sc. 2. 



*]2 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry VIII. continued. 

And then to breakfast, with 
What appetite you have. Act iii. Sc 2. 

I have touch'd the highest point of all my great- 
ness, 
And from that full meridian of my glory, 
I haste now to my setting : I shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Press not a falling man too far. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 
This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : 
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; 
I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched 
Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! 
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, 
That sweet aspect of princes and their ruin, 
More pangs and fears than wars or women have 3 
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again. Act iii. Sc 2. 

And sleep in dull, cold marble. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, 
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
I charge thee, fling away ambition : 
By that sin fell the angels. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Shakespeare, 73 

King Henry VIII. continued.] 

Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate 

thee, 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not. 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's. Act Hi. Sc 2. 

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal 
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye \ 
Give him a little earth for charity ! Act iv. Sc. 2. 

He gave his honours to the world again, 
His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. 

Act iv. Sc 2. 

So may he rest : his faults lie gently on him. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 1 Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write 
it in marble : and whoso doth us a good tourne we write 
it in duste. Sir Thomas More, Richard III. 
L'injure se grave en metal 
Et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde. 
Jean Bertaut (1570-1611), Carey's French Poets. 
4 



74 Shakespeare. 

[King Henry VIII. continued. 

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : 
Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not ; 
But to those men that sought him, sweet as Sum- 
mer. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
After my death I wish no other herald, 
No other speaker of my living actions, 
To keep mine honour from corruption, 
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 
'T is a cruelty, 
To load a falling man. Act v. Sc 2. 



TROILUS AND CRfiSSIDA. 

I have had my labour for my travail. 

Act i. Sc. I. 
The baby figure of the giant mass 
Of things to come. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
And give to dust, that is a little gilt, 
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, 
Be shook to air. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

The end crowns all. Act iv. Sc. 5. 



Shakespeare. 75 

CORIOLANUS. 

I thank you for your voices, thank you, — 
Your most sweet voices. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
His nature is too noble for the world : 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 
Or Jove for his power to thunder. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Serv. Where dwellest thou ? 

Cor. Under the canopy. Activ. Sc. 5. 

A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, 
And harsh in sound to thine. Activ. Sc. 5. 

Chaste as the icicle, 
That 's curded by the frost from purest snow, 
And hangs on Dian's temple. Act v. Sc. 3. 

If you have writ your annals true, 't is there, 
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I 
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : 
Alone I did it. — Boy I 1 Act v. Sc. 6. 

TITUS ANDRONICUS. 

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won • 
She is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'd. 
What, man ! more water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of • and easy it is 
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 Act v. Sc. 5, Singer, Knight. 



?6 Shakespeare. 

ROMEO AND JULIET. 

The weakest goes to the wall. Acti. Sc. i. 

Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. 

Acti. Sc. i. 
An hour before the worshipp'd sun 
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east. 

Act i. Sc. i. 
As is the bud bit with an envious worm, 
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, 
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. Act I Sc i. 

Saint-seducing gold. Act I Sc. i. 

He that is stricken blind, cannot forget 
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. 

Act I Sc. i. 

One fire burns out another's burning, 
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, 
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. 
She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes 
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone 
On the fore-finger of an alderman, 
Drawn with a team of little atomies 
Over men's noses as they lie asleep. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 



Shakespeare. yj 

Romeo and Juliet continued.] 

True, I talk of dreams, 
Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Act i. Sc. 4. 

For you and I are past our dancing days. 

Acti. Sc. 5. 

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 

Act i. Sc 5. 

Too early seen unknown, and known too late ! 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

When King Cophetua lov'd the beggar maid. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 

O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 

That I might touch that cheek ! Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

O Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ? 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

What 's in a name ? that which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

For stony limits cannot hold love out. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye, 
Than twenty of their swords. Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 

1 Act ii. Sc. 1, White. 



y8 Shakespeare. 

[Romeo and Juliet continued. 

At lovers' perjuries, 1 
They say, Jove laughs. Act ii. Sc. 2? 

Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops, — 
Jul. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant 
moon 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 

Act ii. Sc. 2 2 
The god of my idolatry. Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 

This bud of love, by Summer's ripening breath, 
May prove a beauteous flower when next we 
meet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears ! 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 

Good night, good night : parting is such sweet 

sorrow, 
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, 
But to the earth some special good doth give ; 
Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : 
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, 
And vice sometime 's by action dignified. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1 Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter. Tibullus, Lib. iii. 
El. 7, Line 17. 

2 Act yl Sc. 1, White. 



Shakespeare. 79 

Romeo and Juliet continued.] 

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 
I am the very pink of courtesy. Act ii. Sc, 4. 

My man 's as true as steel. 1 Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Here comes the lady. — O, so light a foot 
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. 

Act ii. Sc. 6. 

Rom. Courage, man ; the hurt cannot be much. 

Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so 
wide as a church-door ■ but 't is enough. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 
A plague o' both your houses ! Act Ml Sc. 1. 

When he shall die, 
Take him and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night, 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Was ever book containing such vile matter 
So fairly bound ? O, that deceit should dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 'true as steel/ Chaucer, Troilas and ' Cresetde, Book v. 
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cresszda, Act iii. Sc. 2. 



80 Shakespeare. 

[Romeo and Juliet continued. 

They may seize 
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand, 
And steal immortal blessing from her lips; 
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, 
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Straining harsh discords, and unpleasing sharps. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Villain and he are many miles asunder. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
I do remember an apothecary, — 
And hereabouts he dwells. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

A beggarly account of empty boxes. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. 
Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book ! 

Act v. Sc, 3. 



Shakespeare. 8 

Romeo and Juliet continued.] 

A feasting presence full of light. Act v. Sc 3. 

Beauty's ensign yet 
Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, 
And death's pale flag is not advanced there. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

Eyes, look your last : 
Arms, take your last embrace ! Act v. Sc. 3. 



TIMON OF ATHENS. 

But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, 
Leaving no tract behind. Act i. Sc 1. 

We have seen better days. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Are not within the leaf of pity writ. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

I '11 example you with thievery : 
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea : the moon 's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears : the earth 's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
From general excrement : each thing 's a thief. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 



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JULIUS CESAR. 

As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

Beware the Ides of March ! Act i. Sc 2. 

Well, honour is the subject of my story. 

I cannot tell what you and other men 

Think of this life ; but for my single self 

I had as lief not be, as live to be 

In awe of such a thing as I myself. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Dar'st thou, Cassius, now 
Leap in with me into this angry flood, 
And swim to yonder point ? — Upon the word, 
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, 
And bade him follow. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Help me, Cassius, or I sink ! Act i. Sc. 2. 

Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. Acti. Sc 2. 

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 
Men at some time are masters of their fates ; 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

Act i. Sc 2. 



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Julius Csesar continued.] 

Conjure with them, 
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Ccesar. 
Now, in the names of all the gods at once, 
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, 
That he is grown so great ? Age, thou art sham'd ! 
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Let me have men about me, that are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights ; 
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit, 
That could be mov'd to smile at anything. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ; 
But when he once attains the upmost 1 round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Between the acting of a dreadful thing, 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : 
The Genius, and the mortal instruments, 

1 e utmost,' Singer, Knight. 



84 Shakespeare, 

[Julius Caesar continued. 

Are then in council ; and the state of man, 

Like to a little kingdom, suffers then 

The nature of an insurrection. 

^4^ii. Sc 1. 

But, when I tell him, he hates flatterers, 
He says, he does, being then most flattered. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

You are my true and honourable wife ; 

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 

That visit my sad heart. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, 
In ranks and squadrons, and right form of war, 
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. 

Act ii. Sc 2. 

When beggars die there are no comets seen ; 
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of 
princes. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

But I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality, 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

♦The choice and master spirits of this age. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Though last, not least, in love. 1 Actm. Sc. 1. 
1 See King Lear, Act ii. Sc. 1. 



Shakespeare. 85 

Julius Cassar continued.] 

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, 
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! 
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 
That ever lived in the tide of times. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Cry "Havock ! " and let slip the dogs of war. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for 
my cause \ and be silent that you may hear. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved 
Rome more. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Who is here so base, that would be a bond- 
man ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended 

I pause for a reply. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears : 
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. 
The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
For Brutus is an honourable man ; 
So are they all, all honourable men. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept : 
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason ! 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 



86 Shakespeare. 

[Julius Caesar continued. 

But yesterday, the word of Caesar might 

Have stood against the world : now lies he there, 

And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

See what a rent the envious Casca made. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Great Caesar fell. 
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : 
I am no orator, as Brutus is. 

I only speak right on. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Put a tongue 
In every wound of Caesar, that should move 
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

When love begins to sicken and decay, 
It useth an enforced ceremony. 
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. 

Act iv. Sc 2. 

You yourself 
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

The foremost man of all this world. 

Act iv. Sc 3. 



Shakespeare. 8y 

Julius Caesar continued.] 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats \ 
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by me as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, 
To lock such rascal counters from his friends, 
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, 
Dash him to pieces ! Act iv. Sc. 3. 

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius. 
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; 
If not, why, then this parting was well made. 

Act v. Sc 1. 

The last of all the Romans, fare thee well ! 

Act v. Sc 3. 
This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

Act v. Sc. 5. 
His life was gentle ; and the elements 
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, " This was a man !" 

Act v. Sc. 5. 



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MACBETH. 

i Witch. When shall we three meet again, 
In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 

2 Witch. When the hurly-burly 's done, 

When the battle 's lost and won. 

Acti. Sc. i. 

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Act i. Sc. i. 

Sleep shall, neither night nor day, 

Hang upon his penthouse lid. Act i. St. 3. 

What are these, 

So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; 

That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, 

And yet are on 't ? 

Act i. St. 3. 

If you can look into the seeds of time, 
And say which grain will grow, and which will 
not. Act i. St. 3. 

Stands not within the prospect of belief. 

Act i. St. 3. 
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 
And these are of them. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The insane root 
That takes the reason prisoner. Act L St. 3. 

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. Act L St. 3. 



Shakespeare. 89 

Macbeth continued.] 

Two truths are told, 
As happy prologues to the swelling act 
Of the imperial theme. Act i. Sc. 3. 

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Nothing is 
But what is not. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Come what come may, 
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it ; he died, 
As one that had been studied in his death, 
To throw away the dearest thing he owed, 
As 't were a careless trifle. Act i. St. 4. 

There 's no art 
To find the mind's construction in the face. 

Act i. St. 4. 
Yet do I fear thy nature : 
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. 

Act i. St. 5. 

What thou wouldst highly, 
That wouldst thou holily • wouldst not play false, 
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Acti. Sc. 5. 

That no compunctious visitings of nature 
Shake my fell purpose. Acti. Sc. 5. 



90 Shakespeare. 

[Macbeth continued. 

Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men 
May read strange matters. Act i. Sc. 5. 

This castle hath a pleasant seat : the air 

Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself 

Unto our gentle senses. Act i. Sc. 6. 

The heaven's breath 
Smells wooingly here. Act i. Sc. 6. 

Coigne of vantage. Act i. Sc. 6. 

If it were done, w r hen 't is done, then 't were 

well 
It were done quickly : if the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch 
With his surcease, success ; that but this blow 
Might be the be-all and the end-all here, 
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — 
We 'd jump the life to come. Act i. Sc. 7. 

We but teach 
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return 
To plague the inventor. This even-handed jus- 
tice 
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice 
To our own lips. Act i. Sc. 7. 

Besides, this Duncan 
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off ; 
And pity, like a naked new-born babe, 



Shakespeare. 91 

Macbeth continued.] 

Striding the blast, or Heaven's cherubin, hors'd 
Upon the sightless couriers of the air. 

Act i. Sc. 7. 

I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent ; but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself, 
And falls on the other. — Act i. St. 7. 

I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Act i. Sc. 7. 

Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 

Like the poor cat i' the adage. Act L Sc. 7. 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 

Who dares do more, is none. Act i. St. 7. 

Nor time, nor place, 
Did then adhere. Act L Sc. 7. 

Macb. If we should fail, — 

Lady M. We fail ! 

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, 
And we '11 not fail. Act i. Sc. 7. 

Memory, the warder of the brain. Act i. Sc. 7. 

There 's husbandry in heaven ; 
Their candles are all out. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Shut up 
In measureless content. Act ii. St. 1. 



92 Shakespeare. 

[Macbeth continued. 

Is this a dagger which I see before me, 

The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me 

clutch thee : 
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 
To feeling, as to sight ? or art thou but 
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, 
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? 

Act il Sc. I. 

Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going. 

Artii. Sc. i. 

Thou sure and firm-set earth, 
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear 
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. 

Act ii. Sc. I. 

Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell 
That summons thee to Heaven or to Hell ! 

Act ii. Sc. I. 

It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman 
Which gives the stern'st good night. 

Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

The attempt, and not the deed, 
Confounds us. Act ii. Sc. i. 1 



I had most need of blessing, and " Amen" 
Stuck in my throat. Act ii. Sc i. 1 



1 Act ii. Sc. i, White, Dyce, Staunton. Act ii. Sc. 2, 
Cambridge, Singer, Knight. 



Shakespeare. 93 

Macbeth continued.] 

Methought, I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more ! 
Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep; 
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

Infirm of purpose ! Act ii. Sc. i. 1 

My hand will rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green — one red. Act ii. Sc. 1.1 

The labour we delight in physics pain. 

Actii. Sc. i. 2 

Confusion now hath made his master-piece. 
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope 
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence 
The life o' the building. Act ii. Sc. i. 2 

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 
Is left this vault to brag of. Actii. Sc. i. 2 

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and killed. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 3 

1 Act ii. Sc. 1, White, Dyce, Staunton. Act ii. Sc. 2, 
Cambridge, Singer, Knight. 

2 Act ii. Sc, 1, White, Dyce. Act ii. Sc. 2, Staunton. 
Act ii. Sc. 3, Cambridge, Singer, Knight. 

3 Act ii. Sc. 2, White, Dyce. Act ii. Sc. 3, Staunton. 
Act ii. Sc. 4, Cambridge, Singer, Knight. 



94 Shakespeare. 

[Macbeth continued. 

Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, 
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, 
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, 
No son of mine succeeding. Act ill. Sc. i. 

Mur. We are men, my liege. 

Mac. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. 

Act iii. Sc I. 

Things without all remedy, 
Should be without regard : what 's done is done. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Better be with the dead, 
Whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace, 
Than on the torture of the mind to lie 
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave \ 
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; 
Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poi- 
son, 
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, 
Can touch him further ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

In them Nature's copy 's not eterne, 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A deed of dreadful note. Act iii. St. 2. 

Now spurs the lated traveller apace, 

To gain the timely inn. Act iii. Sc 3. 

But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. Act iii. Sc 4. 



Shakespeare. 95 

Macbeth continued.] 

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both ! Act iii. Sc 4. 

Thou canst not say I did it : never shake 
Thy gory locks at me. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The times have been, 
That, when the brains were out, the man would 

die, 
And there an end ; but now they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, 
Which thou dost glare with ! Act iii. Sc. 4. 

What man dare, I dare : 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hvrcan tiger • 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Hence, horrible shadow ! 
Unreal mockery, hence ! Act iii. Sc. 4. 

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good 

meeting, 
With most admir'd disorder. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Can such things be, 
And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder ? Act Hi. Sc. 4. 

Stand not upon the order of your going, 

But go at once. Act iii. Sc 4. 



g6 Shakespeare. 

[Macbeth continued. 

Double, double toil and trouble. Activ. Sc i. 
Eye of newt, and toe of frog. Act iv. Sc. i. 

Black spirits and white, 

Red spirits and gray, 
Mingle, mingle, mingle, 

You that mingle may. 1 

Ad iv. Sc. I. 

By the pricking of my thumbs, 
Something wicked this way comes : 
Open, locks, whoever knocks. 

Act iv. Sc. i. 

How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? 

Act iv. Sc. i. 

A deed without a name. Activ. Sc. i. 

I '11 make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of Fate. Act iv. Sc i. 

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart ; 

Come like shadows, so depart. Act iv. Sc. i. 

What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of 

doom ? Act iv. Sc. i. 

The weird sisters. Act iv. Sc. i. 

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 
Unless the deed go with it. Activ. Sc 1. 

When our actions do not, 
Our fears do make us traitors. Act iv. Sc 2. 

1 This song is found entire in " The Witch " by 
Thomas Middleton, Act v. Sc. 2, (Works, ed. Dyce,) 
iii. 328, and is there called A char me Song about a Vessel. 



Shakespeare. 97 

Macbeth continued.] 

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Stands Scotland where it did? Activ. Sc. 3. 

Give sorrow words ; the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. 

Act iv. *SV. 3. 

What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, 
At one fell swoop ? Act iv. Sc. 3. 

I cannot but remember such things were, 
That were most precious to me. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, 
And braggart with my tongue ! Act iv. Sc, 3. 

Out, damned spot ! out, I say ! Act v. Sc. 1. 

Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard ? 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten 
this little hand. Act v. Sc. 1. 

My way of life l 
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare 
not. Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 Johnson would read, ' May of life.' 
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98 Shakespeare. 

[Macbeth continued. 

Doct. Not so sick, my lord, 

As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, 
That keep her from her rest. 

Macb. Cure her of that : 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain, 
And with some sweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, 
Which weighs upon the heart ? 

Doct. Therein the patient 

Must minister to himself. 

Macb. Throw physic to the dogs ; I '11 none 
of it. Act v. Sc. 3. 

I would applaud thee to the very echo, 

That should applaud again. Act v. Sc 3. 

Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; 
The cry is still, They co7ne. Our castle's strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Act v. Sc. 5. 

And my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, 
As life were in 't. I have supp'd full with hor- 
rors. Act v. Sc. 5. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time ; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! 



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Macbeth continued,] 

Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. Act v. Sc. 5. 

To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, 

That lies like truth : Fear not, till Birnam wood 

Do come to Dunsinane. Actv.Sc. 5. 

Blow, wind ! come, wrack ! 
At least we '11 die with harness on our back. 

Act v. Sc. 5. 

I bear a charmed life. Act v. Sc. 7. 1 

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, 
That palter with us in a double sense \ 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. Act v. Sc. 7. 1 

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time. 

Act v. Sc. 7. 1 

Lay on, Macduff; 
And damn'd be him that first cries, " Hold, 
enough ! " Act v. Sc. 7. 1 

1 Act v. Sc. 7, White, Singer, Knight. Act v. Sc. 8, 
Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. 



ioo Shakespeare, 



HAMLET. 

For this relief much thanks. ActL Sc. i. 

But in the gross and scope of mine opinion, 
This bodes some strange eruption to our State. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

Does not divide the Sunday from the week. 

Act i. Sc. I. 

Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day. 

Act'i. Sc. i. 

In the most high and palmy state of Rome, 
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, 
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 

Act i. Sc. i. 

And then it started, like a guilty thing 

Upon a fearful summons. Act i. Sc. i. 

Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, 
The extravagant and erring spirit hies 
To his confine. Act i. Sc. i. 

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long : 
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir 1 abroad; 
The nights are wholesome ; then no planets 
strike, 

1 'can walk/ White, Knight. 



Shakespeare. i o I 

Hamlet continued.] 

No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 
So hallow' d and so gracious is the time. 

Act i. Sc i. 

The morn, in russet mantle clad, 
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill 

Act i. Sc. I. 

With one auspicious, and one dropping eye, 
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, 
In equal scale weighing delight and dole. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

The head is not more native to the heart. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

But I have that within, which passeth show \ 
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, 

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew • 

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God ! O God ! 

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 

Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
That it should come to this ! Act i. Sc. 2. 

Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, 
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 
Visit her face too roughly. Act i. Sc. 2. 



102 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

Why, she would hang on him, 
As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Frailty, thy name is woman ! Act i. Sc. 2. 

A little month. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Like Niobe, all tears. Act i. Sc. 2. 

A beast, that wants discourse of reason. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

My father's brother, but no more like my father, 
Than I to Hercules. Act i. Sc. 2. 

It is not, nor it cannot come to, good. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral bak'd meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

In my mind's eye, Horatio. Act i. Sc. 2. 

He was a man, take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Season your admiration for a while. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

In the dead vast and middle of the night. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Armed at all points. Act i. Sc. 2. 

A countenance more 
In sorrow than in anger. Act i. Sc. 2. 



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Hamlet continued.] 

While one with moderate haste might tell a hun- 
dred. Act i. Sc. 2. 

It was, as I have seen it in his life, 

A sable silvered. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Give it an understanding, but no tongue. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Foul deeds will rise, 
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's 
eyes. Act i. Sc. 2. 

The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

Act\. Sc. 3. 

The canker galls the infants of the spring, 
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; 
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 
Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven, 
Whilst, like a puff 'd and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 
And recks not his own rede. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Give thy thoughts no tongue. Act i. Sc. 3. • 

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar : 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops * of steel. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 ' hooks,' Singer. 



104 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, 
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. 
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 
ment. 
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all, — to thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Springes to catch woodcocks. Act i. Sc 3. 

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Ham. The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold. 
Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

But to my mind, — though I am native here, 
And to the manner born, — it is a custom 
More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! 

Act i. Sc. 4. 



Shakespeare. 105 

Hamlet continued.] 

Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn' d, 
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from 

hell, 
Be thy intents wicked or charitable, 
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, 
That I will speak to thee. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell, 
Why thy canoniz'd bones hearsed in death, 
Have burst their cerements ? why the sepulchre, 
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, 
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, 
To cast thee up again? What may this mean, 
That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel 
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, 
Making night hideous ; and we fools of nature, 
So horridly to shake our disposition 
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. Act i. Sc 4. 

My fate cries out, 
And makes each petty artery in this body 
As hardy as the Xemean lion's nerve. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

Unhand me, gentlemen, 
By Heaven, I '11 make a ghost of him that lets me. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

5* 



io6 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

I am thy father's spirit : 
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, 1 
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, 
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their 

spheres, 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 
And each particular hair to stand on end, 
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : 
But this eternal blazon must not be 
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list ! 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

And duller should'st thou be than the fat weed 
That rots itself 2 in ease on Lethe wharf. 

Act i. St. 5. 

O my prophetic soul ! 
Mine uncle ! Act I Sc 5. 

O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there ! 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

But soft ! methinks I scent the morning air : 
Brief let me be. Sleeping within mine orchard, 
My custom always in the afternoon. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

1 ' to lasting fires,' Singer. 

2 * roots itself,' White, Dyce, Cambridge. 



Shakespeare. 107 

Hamlet continued.] 

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd • 
No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

Leave her to Heaven, 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 

To prick and sting her 

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his un effectual fire. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

While memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Remember thee ? 
Yea, from the table of my memory 
I '11 wipe away all trivial fond records. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

Within the book and volume of my brain. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
My tables, my tables, — meet it is, I set it down, 
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain ; 
At least, I am sure it may be so in Denmark. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the 

grave 
To tell us this. Act i. Sc. 5. 

There are more things in heaven and earth, 

Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your 1 philosophy. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 

1 ' our,' White, Dyce, Knight. 



108 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit ! Act L Sc. 5. 

The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite ! 
That ever I was born to set it right. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind ; 
A savageness in unreclaimed blood. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

This is the very ecstasy of love. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Brevity is the soul of wit. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

More matter, with less art. Act ii. Sc 2. 

That he is mad, 't is true : 't is true 't is pity, 
And pity 't is 't is true. Act ii. Sc 2. 

Find out the cause of this effect ; 
Or rather say, the cause of this defect, 
For this effect defective comes by cause. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Doubt thou the stars are fire, 
Doubt that the sun doth move \ 

Doubt truth to be a liar, 

But never doubt I love. Act ii. Sc, 2. 

Still harping on my daughter. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Pol. What do you read, my lord ? 

Ham. Words, words, words. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

They have a plentiful lack of wit. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Though this be madness, yet there's method in't. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 



SJiakespewe. 109 

Hamlet continued.] 

On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

There is nothing either good or bad, but think- 
ing makes it so. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a 
sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, 
the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firma- 
ment, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, 
why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul 
and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a 
piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! 
how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, 
how express and admirable ! in action, how like 
an angel ! in apprehension, how like a god ! 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Man delights not me ; no, nor woman neither. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

I know a hawk from a hand-saw. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Come, give us a taste of your quality. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

The play, I remember, pleased not the mil- 
lion ; 't was caviare to the general. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of 
the time. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Use every man after his desert, and who should 
'scape whipping ? Act ii. Sc 2. 



1 1 o Shakespeare, 

[Hamlet continued. 

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 
That he should weep for her ? Act ii. Sc 2. 

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. 1 Attn. Sc 2. 

The Devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape. Act ii. Sc 2. 

The play 's the thing 
Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the King. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

With devotion's visage, 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 
The Devil himself. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

To be, or not to be ; that is the question : — 
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep, — 
No more : and, by a sleep, to say we end 
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to, — 't is a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, — to sleep : — 
To sleep ! perchance, to dream : ay, there 's the 

rub ; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause. There 's the respect 
That makes calamity of so long life : 

1 Cf. Chaucer, The Nojines Preestes Tale, Line 15058. 



Shakespeare. 1 1 1 

Hamlet continued.] 

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's con- 
tumely, 
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels 1 bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 
But that the dread of something after death, — 
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn 
No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, 
And makes us rather bear those ills w T e have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of ? 
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; 
And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
With this regard their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. Act hi. Sc. i. 

Nymph, in thy orisons 
Be all my sins remember'd. Act iii. Sc. i. 

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, 
thou shalt not escape calumny. Act in. Sc i. 

1 ' Who would these fardels,' White, Knight. 



112 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown 1 
The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's eye, tongue, 
sword. Act iii. Sc. i. 

The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers ! Act iii. Sc i. 

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. 

Act iii. Sc. I. 

Nor do not saw the air too much with your 
hand, thus ; but use all gently. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split 
the ears of the groundlings. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

It out-herods Herod. Act HI Sc. 2. 

Suit the action to the word, the word to the 
action, with this special observance, that you o'er- 
step not the modesty of nature. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but 
make the judicious grieve. Act Hi. Sc 2. 

Not to speak it profanely. Act iii. Sc 2. 

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen 
had made men, and not made them well, they 
imitated humanity so abominably. Act iii. Sc 2. 

O, reform it altogether. Act iii. Sc 2. 

Horatio, thou are e'en as just a man 
As e'er my conversation coped withal. 

Act iii. Sc 2. 



Shakespeare. 113 

Hamlet continued.] 

No ; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards 
Hast ta'en with equal thanks. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

They are not a pipe for Fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please. Give me that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core, aye, in my heart of heart, 
As I do thee. Something too much of this. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
And my imaginations are as foul 
As Vulcan's stithvc Act iii. Sc 2. 

Here 's metal more attractive. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Nay, then let the Devil wear black, for I '11 
have a suit of sables. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot. 1 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
This is miching mallecho ; it means mischief. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Ham. Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? 
Oph. 'T is brief, my lord. 
Ham. As woman's love. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

The lady doth protest 2 too much, methinks. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are 
unwrung. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 See Love's Labour \r Lost, Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2 i protests too much,' White, Knight. 



114 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

Why, let the strucken deer go weep, 

The hart ungalled play ; 
For some must watch, while some must sleep ; 

Thus runs the world away. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

T is as easy as lying. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

It will discourse most eloquent music. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Pluck out the heart of my mystery. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that 's almost 
in shape of a camel ? 1 

Pol. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed. 

Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel. 

Pol. It is back'd like a weasel. 

Ham. Or, like a whale ? 

Pol. Very like a whale. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

They fool me to the top of my bent. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

'T is now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn, and Hell itself breathes 

♦ out 
Contagion to this world. Act iii. Sc 2. 

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; 

It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, 

A brother's murder. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 * in shape like a camel ' ; so the folios. 



Shakespeare, 115 

Hamlet continued.] 

Help, angels ! make assay : 
Bow, stubborn knees ; and, heart, with strings of 

steel, 
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
About some act, 
That has no relish of salvation in 't. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Dead, for a ducat, dead. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

And let me wring your heart : for so I shall, 
If it be made of penetrable stuff. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

False as dicers' oaths. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Look here, upon this picture, and on this ; 
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 
See, what a grace was seated on this brow : 
Hyperion's curls • the front of Jove himself • 
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; 
A station like the herald Mercury, 
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill • 
A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

At your age, 
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it 's humble. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

O shame ! where is thy blush ? Act iii. Sc. 4. 

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, 
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, 
And put it in his pocket ! Act iii. Sc. 4. 



n6 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

A king of shreds and patches. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

This is the very coinage of your brain. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Bring me to the test, 
And I the matter will re-word, which madness 
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 

Act iii. *SV. 4. 

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I must be cruel, only to be kind : 
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

For 't is the sport to have the engineer 
Hoist with his own petar. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Diseases, desperate grown, 
By desperate appliance are relieved, 
Or not at all. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat 
of a king ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of 
that worm. Act iv. Sc, 3. 

Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, 

Looking before and after, gave us not 

That capability and godlike reason, 

To fust in us unus'd. Act iv. Sc 4. 

Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honour 's at the stake. Act iv. Sc. 4. 



Shakespeare. 1 1 7 

Hamlet continued.] 

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 

Act iv. Sc. 5. 

We know what we are, but know not what we 
may be. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 
But in battalions. Act iv. St. 5. 

There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would. 

Act iv. Sc. 5. 

There 's rosemary, that's for remembrance \ 

and there is pansies, that 's for thoughts. 

Act iv. Sc. 5. 

A very riband in the cap of youth. 

Act iv. Sc. 7. 

One woe doth tread upon another's heel 

So fast they follow. Act iv. Sc. 7. 

Cudgel thy brains no more about it. 

Actv. Sc. 1. 

Has this fellow no feeling of his business ? 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
The hand of little employment hath the dain- 
tier sense. Actv. Sc. 1. 

One, that was a woman, sir ; but, rest her 
soul, she 's dead. Act v. Sc 1. 

How absolute the knave is ! we must speak 
by the card, or equivocation will undo us. 

Actv. Sc. 1. 



1 1 8 Shakespeare. 

[Hamlet continued. 

The age is grown so picked, that the toe of 
the peasant comes so near the heel of the court- 
ier, he galls his kibe. Act v. Sc. i. 

Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio : a 
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? 
your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that 
were wont to set the table on a roar ? 

Act v. Sc. i. 

Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell 
her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour 
she must come. Act v. Sc. i. 

To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! 
Why may not imagination trace the noble dust 
of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung- 
hole ? Actv. Sc i. 

Imperial Caesar, dead, and turn'd to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 

Actv. Sc. i. 

Lay her i' the earth ; 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh, 
May violets spring. 1 Actv. Sc i. 

Sweets to the sweet : farewell. Actv. Sc i. 

1 Cf. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xviii. 



Shakespeare. 1 1 9 

Hamlet continued.] 

I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet 

maid. 
And not t have strewed thy grave. 

Actv. Sc. 1. 

For though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet have I in me something dangerous. 

Actv. Sc. 1. 

Nay, and thou 'It mouth, 
I '11 rant as well as thou. Actv. Sc. 1. 

Let Hercules himself do what he may, 
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Into a towering passion. Actv. Sc. 2. 

The phrase would be more german to the 
matter, if we could carry a cannon by our sides. 

Actv. Sc. 2. 

There is a special providence in the fall of a 
sparrow. Ad v. Sc. 2. 

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, 

And hurt my brother. Act v. Sc. 2. 

A hit, a very palpable hit. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Report me and my cause aright. Actv. Sc 2. 

This fell sergeant, death, 
Is strict in his arrest. Act v. Sc. 2. 



120 Shakespeare. 



KING LEAR. 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 

To have a thankless child ! Act i. Sc. 4. 

Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

Down, thou climbing sorrow ! 
Thy element 's below. Act ii. Sc, 4. 

O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheeks. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! 
blow ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Tremble, thou wretch, 
That hast within thee undivulged crimes, 
Unwhipp'd of justice. Act iii. St, 2. 

I am a man 
More sinn'd against than sinning. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O, that way madness lies ; let me shun that. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, 
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you 
From seasons such as these ? Act iii. Sc, 4. 



Shakespeare. 121 

King Lear continued.] 

Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Out-paramoured the Turk. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

'T is a naughty night to swim in. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The green mantle of the standing pool. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

But mice, and rats, and such small deer, 
Have been Tom's food for seven long year. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I '11 talk a word with this same learned Theban. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Fie, fob, and fum, 
I smell the blood of a British man. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The little dogs and all, 
Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at 
me. Act iii. Sc. 6. 

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel, grim, 
Hound, or spaniel, brach, or lym ; 
Or bobtail tike, or trundle-tail. Act iii. Sc. 6. 

Patience and sorrow strove, 
Who should express her goodliest. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
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122 Shakespeare. 

[King Lear continued. 

Half-way down 
Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. 
The fishermen that walk upon the beach 
Appear like mice. Act iv. Sc 6. 

Ay, every inch a king. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, 
to sweeten my imagination. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; 
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Activ. Sc. 6. 

Mine enemy's dog, 
Though he had bit me, should have stood that 

night 
Against my fire. Act iv. Sc. 7. 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to plague us. 1 Act v. Sc 3. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass : he hates him, 
That would upon the rack of this tough world 
Stretch him out longer. Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 * scourge us,' Singer. 



Shakespeare. 123 

OTHELLO. 

That never set a squadron in the field, 

Nor the division of a battle knows. Act i. Sc. 1. 

The bookish theoric. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Whip me such honest knaves. Act i. Sc. 1. 

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at. Act i. Sc. 1. 

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors, 
My very noble and approv'd good masters, 
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, 
It is most true ; true, I have married her : 
The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my 

speech, 
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; 
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, 
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd 
Their dearest action in the tented field ; 
And little of this great world can I speak, 
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; 
And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause 
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious 

patience, 
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
Of my whole course of love. Act i. Sc 3. 



1 24 Shakespeare. 

[Othello continued. 

Her father lov'd me ; oft invited me ; 

Still question'd me the story of my life, 

From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, 

That I have pass'd. 

I ran it through, even from my boyish days, 

To the very moment that he bade me tell it : 

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 

Of moving accidents by flood and field ; 

Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly 

breach • 
Of being taken by the insolent foe, 
And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, 
And portance in my travel's history : 
Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, 
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads 

touch heaven, 
It was my hint to speak, — such was the process. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads 
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear, 1 
Would Desdemona seriously incline. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

And often did beguile her of her tears, 
When I did speak of some distressful stroke 
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, 
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : 
She swore, — in faith, 't was strange, 't was pass- 
ing strange ; 
'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful : 

1 ' these things to hear,' Singer, Knight. 



Shakespeare. 125 

Othello continued.] 

She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd 
That Heaven had made her such a man : she 

thank'd me ; 
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, 
I should but teach him how to tell my stow, 
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake \ 
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, 
And I loved her that she did pity them. 
This only is the witchcraft I have used. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

I do perceive here a divided duty. Acti. Sc 3. 

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from 
the thief. Act L Sc. 3. 

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, 
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war 
My thrice-driven bed of down. Act i. Sc 3. 

I saw Othello's visage in his mind. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Put money in thy purse. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The food that to him now is as luscious as 
locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as 
coloquintida. Act L Sc. 3. 

Framed to make women false. Act i. Sc. 3. 

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

For I am nothing, if not critical. Acta. Sc 1. 



1 2 6 Shakespeare, 

[Othello continued. 

I am not merry ; but I do beguile 
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. 

Act il Sc i. 
She was a wight, — if ever such wight were, — 
Des. To do what ? 

/ago. To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. 
Des. O, most lame and impotent conclusion ! 

Act ii. Sc. I. 
Egregiously an ass. Act ii. Sc i. 

Potations pottle deep. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

King Stephen was a worthy peer, 
His breeches cost him but a crown ; 

He held them sixpence all too dear, 
With that he called the tailor, lown. 1 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Silence that dreadful bell ! it frights the isle 
From her propriety. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Your name is great 
In mouths of wisest censure. Act ii. Sc 3. 

Cassio, I love thee ; 
But nevermore be officer of mine. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Iago. What, are you hurt, lieutenant ? 

Cas. Ay, past all surgery. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O, I have 
lost my reputation ! I have lost the immortal 
part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1 Though these lines are from an old ballad given in 
Percy's Reliques they are much altered by Shakespeare, 
and it is his version we sing in the nursery. 



Shakespeare. 127 

Othello continued.] 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no 
name to be known by, let us call thee devil ! 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

O that men should put an enemy in their 
mouths, to steal away their brains ! 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Cas. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and 
the ingredient is a devil. 

/ago. Come, come ; good wine is a good fa- 
miliar creature, if it be well used. ActiL Sc. 3. 

Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, 
But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not, 
Chaos is come again. 1 Act Hi. Sc. 3. 

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, 
As thou dost ruminate ; and give thy worst of 

thoughts 
The worst of words. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 
Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 't is some- 
thing, nothing \ 
'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thou- 
sands \ 
But he that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, 
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 

Venus and Adonis. 



128 Shakespeare. 

[Othello continued. 

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy • 
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, 
Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet strongly 1 
loves ! Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. 

Act iii. Sc, 3. 

To be once in doubt, 
Is once to be resolved. Act iii. Sc 3. 

If I do prove her haggard, 
Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 
I 'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, 
To prey at fortune. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

I am declined 
Into the vale of years. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

That we can call these delicate creatures ours, 
And not their appetites ! Act iii. St. 3. 

Trifles, light as air, 
Are to the jealous confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. Act iii. St. 3. 

Not poppy, nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou ow'dst yesterday. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

l < fondly,' White, Knight. 
1 soundly,' Staunton. 



Shakespeare. 129 

Othello continued.] 

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

O, now, for ever, 

Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content 1 
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, 
The royal banner, and all quality, 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! 
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats 
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, 
Farewell ! Othello's occupation 's gone ! 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Be sure of it : give me the ocular proof. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

No hinge, nor loop, 
To hang a doubt on. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

On horror's head horrors accumulate. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

But this denoted a foregone conclusion. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, 
For 't is of aspics' tongues ! Act iii. Sc. 3. 

They laugh that win. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

But yet the pity of it, Iago ! O, Iago, the 
pity of it, Iago ! Act iv. Sc 1. 

6* 1 



1 30 Shakespeare. 

[Othello continued 

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

But, alas ! to make me 
A fixed figure, for the time of scorn 
To point his slow unmoving finger l at. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Heaven ! that such companions thou 'dst un- 

fold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascals naked through the world. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

T is neither here nor there. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

He hath a daily beauty in his life. Act v. Sc 1. 

This is the night 
That either makes me, or fordoes me quite. 

Act v. Sc. I. 

Put out the light, and then — put out the light. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

One entire and perfect chrysolite. Act v. Sc 2. 

1 have done the State some service, and they 

know it ; 
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, 
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, 
Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice : then, must you 

speak 
Of one that lov'd, not wisely, but too well : 

1 ' slow and moving finger,' Knight, Staunton. 



Sliakespeare. 131 

Othello continued.] 

Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, 
Perplex' d in the extreme ; of one, whose hand, 
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, 
Richer than all his tribe ; of one, whose subdu'd 

eyes, 
Albeit unused to the melting mood, 
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their med'cinable gum. Act v. Sc. 2. 



ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. 

There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 

My salad days, 
When I was green in judgment. Act i. Sc. 5. 

For her own person, 
It beggared all description. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Come, thou monarch of the vine, 

Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

Who does P the wars more than his captain can, 
Becomes his captain's captain ; and ambition, 
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, 
Than gain which darkens him. Act Hi. Sc. 1. 

He wears the rose 
Of youth upon him. Act HI Sc. 11. 



132 Shakespeare. 

[Antony and Cleopatra continued. 

This morning, like the spirit of a youth 
That means to be of note, begins betimes. 

Act iv. Sc. 4. 

Sometime, we see a cloud that 's dragonish, 
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 
A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock. 

Act iv. Sc 12. 

That which is now a horse, even with a thought, 
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct. 

Activ. Sc. 12. 

Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion. 

Act iv. Sc. 13. 

Mechanic slaves 
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 



CYMBELINE. 

Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, 1 

And Phoebus 'gins arise, 
His steeds to water at those springs 

On chalic'd flowers that lies ; 
And winking Mary-buds begin 

To ope their golden eyes. Act il Sc. 3. 

1 None but the lark so shrill and clear ! 
Now at Heaven's gate she claps her wings, 
The morn not waking till she sings. 
John Lylye, Alexander and Campaspe, Act v. Sc. 1. 



Shakespeare. 133 

Cymbeline continued.] 

Some griefs are med'cinable. Actm. Sc. 3. 

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk, 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

No, 'tis slander, 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose 

tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Xile. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Weariness 
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth, 
Finds the down pillow hard. Act iii. Sc. 6. 

Golden lads and girls all must, 

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 



PERICLES. 

3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live 
in the sea. 

1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land : the great 
ones eat up the little ones. Act ii. Sc. 1. 



1 34 Shakespeare. 



POEMS. 

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. 

Ve)ius a,7id Adonis. Line 145. 

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 

Lucrece. Line 1006. 
Crabbed age and youth 
Cannot live together. 

The Passionate Pilgrim, viii. 

Have you not heard it said full oft, 
A woman's nay doth stand for naught ? 

Ibid. xiv. 

As it fell upon a day 

In the merry month of May. 1 

Ibid. xv. 
She in thee 
Calls back the lovely April of her prime. 

Sonnet iii. 

And stretched metre of an antique song. 

Sonnet xvii. 

But thy eternal summer shall not fade. 

Sonnet xviii. 

The painful warrior, famoused for fight, 
After a thousand victories once foil'd, 
Is from the books of honour razed quite, 
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. 

Sonnet xxv. 

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 
I summon up remembrance of things past. 

Sonnet xxx. 
1 See Barnfield, p. 143. 



Shakespeare. 135 

Like stones of worth, they thinly placed are, 
Or captain jewels in the carcanet. Sonnetlil 

And art made tongue-tied by authority. 

Sonnet lxvL 
And simple truth miscall' d simplicity, 
And captive good attending captain ill. ibid. 

The ornament of beauty is suspect, 

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 

Son j iet Ixx. 
Do not drop in for an after-loss. 
Ah, do not, when my heart hath scap'd this sorrow, 
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe ; 
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, 
To linger out a purpos'd overthrow. 

Sonnet xc. 
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, 
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. 

Sonnet xcviii. 
And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme. 

Sonnet cvi. 
My nature is subdu'd 
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. 

Sonnet cxi. 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments : love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds. 

Sonnet cxvi. 
That full star that ushers in the even. 

Soniiet cxxxii. 

O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies 
In the small orb of one particular tear ! 

A Lovers Complaint, St. xlii. 



136 Bacon. 



FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. 

WORKS (Ed. Spedding and Ellis). 
Come home to men's business and bosoms. 

Dedication to the Essays. Ed. 1 625. 

No pleasure is comparable to the standing 
upon the vantage-ground of truth. 

Essay i. Of Truth. 

A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to 
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's 
minds about to religion. Essay xvi. Atheism. 

He that hath wife and children hath given 
hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments 
to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 

Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. 

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which 
cause good or evil times, and which have much 
veneration, but no rest 1 Essay xix. Empire. 

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swal- 
lowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 

Essay 1. Of Sticdies. 

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready 
man, and writing an exact man. ibid. 

1 Cf. Shellev, Hellas. 



Bacon, 137 

Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the 
mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; 
moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. 

Ibid. 

I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; 
from the which as men of course do seek to re- 
ceive countenance and profit, so ought they of 
duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends 
to be a help and ornament thereunto. 

Maxims of the Law. Preface. 

Knowledge is power. — Nam et ipsa scie?itia 
potest as est} Meditationes Saenz. Be Hceresibus. 

When you wander, as you often delight to do, 
you wander indeed, and give never such satisfac- 
tion as the curious time requires. This is not 
caused by any natural defect, but first for want 
of election, when you, having a large and fruit- 
ful mind, should not so much labour what to 
speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich 
soils are often to be weeded. 

Letter of Expostulation to Coke. 

My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never 
put her precious jewels into a garret four stories 
high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had 
ever very empty heads. 2 Apothegm, No 17. 

1 A wise man is strong ; yea. a man of knowledge 
increaseth strength. — Prov. xxiv. 5. 

2 Cf. Fuller, p. 210. 



138 Bacon. 

" Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These 
times are the ancient times, when the world is 
ancient, and not those which we account ancient 
ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward 
from ourselves. 1 

Advancement of Learning. Book i. ( 1 605 . ) 

It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some par- 
ticipation of divineness, because it doth raise 
and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of 
things to the desires of the mind. 

Ibid. Book ii. 

1 As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell 
you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the 
farther distance from the beginning and the nearer ap- 
proach to the end. The times wherein we now live being 
in propriety of speech the most ancient since the world's 
creation. — George Hakewill, An Apologie or Declara- 
tion of the Pozver and Providence of God in the Govern- 
me?it of the World. London, 1627. 

For as old age is that period of life most remote from 
infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal 
man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, 
but in those most remote from it ? — Pascal, Preface to the 
Treatise on Vacuum. 

We are Ancients of the earth, 
And in the morning of the times. 

Tennyson, The Day Dream. ( V Envoi.) 

It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often 
quoted from Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's 
Cena di Cenere, published in 1584 ; I mean the notion that 
the later times are more aged than the earlier. — Whew- 
ell, Philos. of the Ifiductive Sciences, Vol. ii. p. 198, Lon- 
don, 1847. 



Allison. 139 

Bacon continued.] * 

The sun, which passeth through pollutions 
and itself remains as pure as before. 1 

Ibid. Book ii. 

For my name and memory, I leave it to men's 
charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to 
the next ages. From his Will 



RICHARD ALLISON. 

There is a garden in her face, 

Where roses and white lilies grow ; 

A heavenly paradise is that place, 
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow : 

There cherries grow that none may buy 

Till cherry ripe themselves do cry. 

From An How res Recreation in AInsike, 1 606. 

Those cherries fairly do enclose 

Of orient pearl a. double row, 
Which, when her lovely laughter shows, 

They look like rosebuds fill'd- with snow. 

Ibid. 

1 The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet 
remains as pure as before. — Adv. of learning, ed. Deivey. 

Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux : etsi per 
immundos transeat, non inquinatur. — St. Augustine, 
Works, Vol. 3, In Johannis Evang., Cap. 1. Tr. v. § 15. 

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores 
is unpolluted in his beam. — Taylor, Holy living, Ch. i. 
Sect. 3. 

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch 
as the sunbeam. — Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of 
Divorce. 



1 40 Peele. — Hey wood. 

< 

GEORGE PEELE. 1552-1598. 

His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; 

O time too swift ! O swiftness never ceasing ! 
His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, 

But spurn 'd in vaine ; youth waneth by en- 

Creasmg. Sonnet ad Jin. Polyhymnia. 

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, 

And lovers' songs be turn'd to holy psalms ; 
A man at arms must now serve on his knees, 
And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms. 

Ibid. 
My merry, merry, merry roifndelay 

Concludes with Cupid's curse : 
They that do change old love for new, 
Pray gods, they change for worse ! 

Cupid's Curse, 
From the Arraign?nent of Paris. 



JOHN HEYWOOD. 1565. 

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, 
As sages in all times assert ; 
The happy man 's without a shirt. 

Be Merry Friends. 
Let the world slide, let the world go : 
A fig for care, and a fig for woe ! 
If I can't pay, why I can owe, 
And death makes equal the high and low. 

Ibid. 



Wotton. 141 



SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568 -1639. 

How happy is he born or taught, 
That serveth not another's will ■ 
Whose armour is his honest thought, 
And simple truth his utmost skill ! 

The Character of a Happy Life. 

And entertains the harmless day 

With a religious book or friend. ibid. 

Lord cf himself, though not of lands ; 
And having nothing, yet hath all. ibid. 

You meaner beauties of the night, 
That poorly satisfy our eyes 
More by your number than your light, 
You common people of the skies ; 

What are you when the moon ' shall rise ? 

To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. 

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other 
men's Stuff. Preface to the Elements of Architecture. 

Hanging was the worst use man could be put to. 
The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex. 

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie 
abroad for the commonwealth. 2 

1 "sun" in Reliquice Wottoniance, Eds. 1 65 1, 1 6 72, 1685. 

2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, " This 
merry definition of an Ambassador I had chanced to set 
down at my friend's Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his 

Album." 



142 Harrington. — Daniel. — Drayton. 

[Wotton continued. 

The itch of disputing will prove the scab of 
churches. 1 A Panegyric to King Charles. 



SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. 1561-1612. 

Treason doth never prosper, what 's the reason ? 
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 2 
Epigrams. Book iv. Ep. 5« 



SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619. 

Unless above himself he can 

Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! 

To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12. 



MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. 

For that fine madness still he did retain, 
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. 
(Of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds \ of Poets and Poesy. 

1 In his will, he directed the stone over his grave to be 
thus inscribed : — 

Hie jacet hujus sentential primus author : 

DlSPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. 

Nomen alias quaere. 

Walton's Life of Wotton. 
2 Prosperum ac felix scelus 
Virtus vocatur. 

Seneca, Here. Fure?is, 2, 250. 



Bam field. — Donne. 143 



RICHARD BARNFIELD. {Born circa 1570.) 

As it fell upon a day 
In the merry month of May, 
Sitting in a pleasant shade 
Which a grove of myrtles made. 

Address to the Nightingale?- 



DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631. 

He was the Word, that spake it ; 
He took the bread and brake it ; 
And what that Word did make it, 
I do believe and take it. 

Divine Poems. On the Sacrament. 

We understood 
Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood 
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, 
That one might almost say her body thought. 
Funeral Elegies. On the Death of Mistress Drnry. 

She and comparisons are odious. 2 

Elegy 8. The Comparison. 

1 This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now 
confidently assigned to Barnfield ; it is found in his col- 
lection of Poems in Divers Humours, published in 1598. 

2 Cf. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Ft. iii. Sc. 3. 
Mem. 1. Subs. 2. Herbert, Jacula Frudenticm. 



144 yonson. 



BEN JONSON. 1574- 1637. 

Drink to me only with thine eyes, 
And I will pledge with mine ; 

Or leave a kiss but in the cup, 
And I '11 not look for wine. 1 

The Forest. To Crtia. 

Still to be neat, still to be drest 
As you were going to a feast. 2 

The Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. I. 

Give me a look, give me a face, 
That makes simplicity a grace. 
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; 
Such sweet neglect more taketh me, 
Than all th' adulteries of art ; 
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 

Ibid. 

In small proportion we just beauties see, 
And in short measures life may perfect be. 

Good Life, Long Life. 

Underneath this stone doth lie 
As much beauty as could die ; 
Which in life did harbour give 
To more virtue than doth live. 

Epitaph on Elizabeth. 

1 'E/xol §e [xovols Trpomve rols oupaaiv Ei de 

/3ou\ei, rot? x* &€(ri 7rpo(T<fiepov(ra, 7r\r)pov (fyiXrjfJLaTcov to 
eWw/xa, kui ovtw Sidov. Philostratus, Letter xxiv. 

2 A true translation from Bonnefonius. 



Toiirneiir. 145 

Jonson continued.] 

Underneath this sable hearse 
Lies the subject of all verse, 
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. 
Death ! ere thou hast slain another, 
Learn 'd and fair and good as she, 
Time shall throw a dart at thee. 

Epitaph on the Cozmtess of Pembroke. 1 

Soul of the age ! 
The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! 
My Shakespeare rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A little further, to make thee a room. 2 

To the Memory of Shakespeare. 

Small Latin, and less Greek. ibid. 

He was not of an age, but for all time. ibid. 

Sweet swan of Avon ! ibid. 

Get money ; still get money, boy ; 
No matter by what means. 3 

Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3. 



CYRIL TOURNEUR. 

A drunkard clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em, 
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. 
The Revenger's Tragedy. Act hi. Sc. I. 

1 In a manuscript collection of Browne's poems pre- 
served amongst the Lansdowne MSS., in the British 
Museum, this epitaph is ascribed to Browne (1590-1645). 

2 Cf. Basse, p. 211. 

3 Cf. Pope, Horace, Book i. Ep. I, Line 103. 

7 J 



146 Hall. — Mas singer. — Overbury. 



BISHOP HALL. 1574- 1656. 

Moderation is the silken string running through 
the pearl chain of all virtues. 

Christian Moderation. Introduc. 
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle 
stands in the grave. 1 Epistles. Dec. iii. Ep. 2. 



PHILIP MASSINGER. 1584- 1640. 

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, 
And takes away the use of it ; and my sword, 
Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, 
Will not be drawn. 

A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1. 

This many-headed monster. 2 

The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Grim death. 3 ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581 - 1613. 

In part to blame is she, 
Which hath without consent bin only tride : 
He comes to neere that comes to be denide. 4 

A Wife. St. 36. 

1 Cf. Young, Night Thoughts, N. 5, Line 719. 

2 Cf. Pope, Satires, Book ii. Ep. I, Line 304. 
8 Cf. Milton, Par. Lost, Book ii. Line 804. 

4 Cf. Montague, p. 303. 



Flgtcher. 147 



JOHN FLETCHER. 1576 -1625. 

Man is his own star, and the soul that can 
Render an honest and a perfect man 
Commands all light, all influence, all fate. 
Nothing to him falls early, or too late. 
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune." 

All things that are 
Made for our general uses are at war, — 
Even we among ourselves. ibid. 

Man is his own star, and that soul that can 
Be honest is the only perfect man. ibid. 

And he that will to bed go sober, 
Falls with the leaf still in October. 1 

Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, 

And three merry boys are we, 
As ever did sing in a hempen string 

Under the gallows-tree. 

Ibid. Act. iii. Sc. 2. 

1 The following well-known catch, or glee, is formed on 
this song : — 

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, 
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October ; 
But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, 
Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow. 



148 Beaumont. 

[Fletcher continued 

Hence, all you vain delights, 
As short as are the nights 

Wherein you spend your folly ! 
There 's naught in this life sweet, 
If man were wise to see 't, 

But only melancholy ; 

O sweetest Melancholy ! 

The Nice Valour. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Fountain heads and pathless groves, 
Places which pale passion loves ! ibid. 

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, 
Sorrow calls no time that's gone : 
Violets plucked, the sweetest rain 
Makes not fresh nor grow again. 1 

The Queen of Corinth. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616. 

What things have we seen 
Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been 
So nimble and so full of subtile flame, 
As if that every one from whence they came 
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, 
And resolved to live a fool the rest 
Of his dull life. Letter to Ben Jonson. 

1 Weep no more, lady, weep no more, 
Thy sorrow is in vain ; 
For violets plucked the sweetest showers 
Will ne'er make grow again. 
Percy's Reliques, The Friar of Orders Gray, 



Beaumont and Fletcher. 149 



BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 

A soul as white as heaven. 

The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. I. 

There is a method in man's wickedness, 
It grows up by degrees. 1 

A King and no King. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Calamity is man's true touchstone. 2 
Four Plays in One. The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1. 

The fit 's upon me now ! 
Come quickly, gentle lady : 
The fit 's upon me now ! 

Wit without Money. Act v. Sc. 5. 

Of all the paths lead to a woman's love 
Pity 's the straightest. 3 

The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1. 

What 's one man's poison, signor, 
Is another's meat or drink. 

Lovers Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Nothing can cover his high fame, but Heaven ; 
Xo pyramids set off his memories, 
But the eternal substance of his greatness ; 
To which I leave him. 

The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 Xemo repente venit turpissimus. — Juvenal, ii. S3. 

2 Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros. — Seneca, 
De Prau. v. 9. 

3 Cf. Southerne, p. 238. 



150 Tarlton. — Carew. 

[Beaumont and Fletcher continued. 

Primrose, first-born child of Ver, 
Merry spring-time's harbinger. 

The Two Noble Ki7ts7?ien. Act 1. Sc. I. 

O great corrector of enormous times, 
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider 
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood 
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world 
O' the plurisy of people. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 



RICHARD TARLTON. 1588. 

The King of France, with forty thousand men, 
Went up a hill, and so came down agen. 

From the Pigges Corautoe, 1642. 



THOMAS CAREW. 1589- 1639. 

He that loves a rosy cheek, 

Or a coral lip admires, 
Or from star-like eyes doth seek 

Fuel to maintain his fires ; 
As old Time makes these decay, 
So his flames must waste away. 

Disdain Returned. 

Then fly betimes, for only they 
Conquer Love, that run away. 

Conquest by Flight. 



Wither. — Hobbes. 151 



GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667. 

Shall I, wasting in despair, 
Die because a woman 's fair ? 

Or make pale my cheeks with care, 
'Cause another's rosy are ? 

Be she fairer than the day, 

Or the flow'ry meads in May, 
If she be not so to me, 
What care I how fair she be ? 

The Shepherd's Resolution. 

Jack shall pipe, and Gill shall dance. 

Poem on Christinas. 

Hang sorrow ! care will kill a cat, 

And therefore let 's be merry. ibid. 

Though I am young, I scorn to flit 
On the wings of borrowed wit. 

The Shepherd's Hunting. 

And I oft have heard defended 

Little said is soonest mended. ibid. 



THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. 

For words are wise men's counters, they do but 
reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. 

The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. 4. 

And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brut- 
ish, and short. ibid. Ch. 13. 



152 Seidell. 



JOHN SELDEN. 1584- 1654. 

Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a 
measure, know what to trust to ; equity is accord- 
ing to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, 
and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 
'T is all one as if they should make the standard 
for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's 
foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ? 
One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short 
foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same 
in the Chancellor's conscience. 

Table Talk. Equity. 
Old friends are best. King James used to call 
for his old shoes \ they were easiest for his feet. 

Friends. 

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a 
man for something in him we cannot abide. 

Judgments. 

No man is the wiser for his learning .... 
wit and wisdom are born with a man. 

Learning. 

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you 
may see by that which way the wind is. Libels. 

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery gov- 
erns the world. 1 Pope. 

Syllables govern the world. Power. 

1 Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is 
governed. Oxenstiern ( 1 583 - 1 654). 



Walton. 153 

IZAAK WALTON. 1593 -1683. 

THE COMPLETE AXGLER. 

Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complex- 
ioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a 
Competent judge. The Author's Preface. 

I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle. 

Part i. Ch. 1. 

Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to 
be born so. Pari i. Ch. 1. 

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. 

Part i. Ch. 4. 

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler 1 said of 
strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made 
a better berry, but doubtless God never did " : 
and so, if I might be judge, God never did make 
a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than 
angling. Part i. Ch. 5. 

Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean 
the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at 
his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew 
the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to 
the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg 
above the upper joint to the armed wire • and in 
so doins; use him as though vou loved him. 

Part i. Ch. 8. 

1 William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his Worthies 

(Suffolk) the " .Esculapius of the Age.'' 

7* 



154 Quarles. 

Complete Angler continued.] 

This dish of meat is too good for any but 
anglers, or very honest men. Parti Ch. 8. 

All that are lovers of virtue, .... be quiet, 
and go a- Angling. p ar t i. Ch. 21. 



FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1644. 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day 
Whose conquering ray 
May chase these fogs ; 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ! 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ; 
Light will repay 
The wrongs of night ; 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ! 

Emblems, Book i. 14. 

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. 

Ibid. Book ii. 2. 

This house is to be let for life or years ; 
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears ; 
Cupid, 't has long stood void ; her bills make 

known, 
She must be dearly let, or let alone. 

Ibid. Book ii. 10, Ep. 10. 

The slender debt to nature 's quickly paid, 
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than 
made. ibid. Book ii. 13. 

The next way home 's the farthest way about. 
Ibid. Book iv. 2. Epig. 2. 



Herbert. 155 



GEORGE HERBERT. 1593 -1632. 

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 

The bridal of the earth and sky. Virtue. 

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 
A box where sweets compacted lie. ibid. 

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

Like seasoned timber, never gives. ibid. 

Like summer friends, 
Flies of estate and sunnenshine. The Answer. 

A servant with this clause 

Makes drudgery divine ; 
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws 

Makes that and the action fine. 

The Elixir. 

A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

The Church Porch. 

Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; 
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. 1 

Ibid. 

The worst speak something good ; if all want 

sense, 
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. 

Ibid. 

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Sin. 
1 Cf. Watts, p. 254. 



156 Parker, 

[Herbert continued. 

Man is one world, and hath 
Another to attend him. Man. 

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness 
May toss him to my breast. The Pulley. 

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it ? 

The Size. 

Do well and right, and let the world sink. 1 

Country Parson. Ch. 29. 

His bark is worse than his bite. 

After death the doctor. 

Hell is full of good meanings and wishes. 

No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil 

builds a chapel hard by. 
Comparisons are odious. 
God's mill grinds slow but sure. 
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. 
To a close-shorn sheep, God gives wind by 

measure. 
Help thyself, and God will help thee. 

Jacula Prudentum. 



MARTYN PARKER. 

Ye gentlemen of England 
That live at home at ease, 

Ah ! little do you think upon 
The dangers of the seas. 

1 Ruat caelum, fiat voluntas tua. — Sir T. Browne, 
Reli". Med. P. 2, Sec. xi. 



S?cckli7tg. 157 

SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1609- 1641. 

Her feet beneath her petticoat 
Like little mice stole in and out, 

As if they feared the light ; 
But O, she dances such a way ! 
No sun upon an Easter-day 

Is half so fine a sight. 

Ballad up07i a Wedding. 

Her lips were red, and one was thin, 
Compared with that was next her chin ; 
Some bee had stung it newly. ibid. 

Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? 

Prithee, why so pale ? 
Will, when looking well can't move her, 

Looking ill prevail ? 

Prithee, why so pale ? Song. 

T is expectation makes a blessing dear ; 
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were. 

Against Fruition. 

She is pretty to walk with, 

And witty to talk with, 

And pleasant, too, to think on. 

Brennoralt. Act ii. 

Her face is like the milky way V the sky, 
A meeting of gentle lights without a name. 

Ibid. Act iii. 

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 1 

The Goblins. 

1 Shakespeare, King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 4. 



158 Herrick. 

ROBERT HERRICK. 1591-1674. 

Some asked me where the Rubies grew, 

And nothing I did say ; 
But with my finger pointed to 

The lips of Julia. 

The Rock of Rabies , and the Quarrie of Pearls, 

Some asked how Pearls did grow, and where ? 

Then spoke I to my Girl, 
To part her lips, and showed them there 

The quarelets of Pearl. ibid. 

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep 

A little out, and then, 1 
As if they played at bo-peep, 

Did soon draw in again. On Her Feet 

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, 

Old Time is still a-flying, 
And this same flower, that smiles to-day, 

To-morrow will be dying. 2 

To the Virgins to make 7iiuch of Time. 

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, 
The shooting-stars attend thee ; 

And the elves also, 

Whose little eyes glow 
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. 

Night Piece to Julia. 

1 Cf. Suckling, p. 157. 

2 Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be 
withered. — Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8. 



Herrick. 159 

Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, 

Full and fair ones, — come and buy ; 

If so be you ask me where 

They do grow, I answer, there, 

Where my Julia's lips do smile, 

There 's the land, or cherry-isle. 

Cherry Ripe, 
Fall on me like a silent dew, 

Or like those maiden showers, 
Which, by the peep of day, do strew 
A baptism o'er the flowers. 

To Music, to becalm his Fever. 
Fair daffadills, we weep to see 

You haste away so soon : 
As yet the early rising sun 

Has not attained his noon. 

To Daffadills. 
A sweet disorder in the dress 
Kindles in clothes a wantonness. 

Delight in Disorder. 

A winning wave, deserving note, 

In the tempestuous petticoat, — 
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie 
I see a wild civility, — 
Do more bewitch me, than when art 
Is too precise in every part. ibid. 

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 

Sorraius Succeed. 

You say to me-wards your affection 's strong ; 
Pray love me little, so you love me long. 1 

Love me Utile, love me long. 
1 Love me little, love me long. — Marlowe, The Jew 
of Malta, Act iv. Sc. 5. 



160 Shirley. — Kepler. 

[Herrick continued. 

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt ; 
Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out. 1 

Seek and Find. 



JAMES SHIRLEY. 1596 -1666. 

The glories of our blood and state 
Are shadows, not substantial things ; 

There is no armour against fate ; 
Death lays his icy hands on kings. 

Contention of A j ax and Ulysses. Sc. iii. 

Only the actions of the just 2 

Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 3 

Ibid. 

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. 
The Last Conqueror. Stanza I. 



JOHN KEPLER. 1571-1630. 

It may well wait a century for a reader, as God 
has waited six thousand years for an observer. 
From Brewster' 's Martyrs of Science, p. 197. 

1 Nil tarn difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit. 
— Terence, Heauton Timornmenos, iv., 2, 8. 

2 The sweet remembrance of the just 
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. 

Psalm xci. 4. Common Prayer. 

8 * their dust.' Works, ed. Dyce, Vol. vi. 



Lovelace. 161 

RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658. 

Oh ! could you view the melody 

Of eveiy grace, 

And music of her face, 1 
You 'd drop a tear ; 

Seeing more harmony 

In her bright eye, 
Than now you hear. Orpheus to Beasts. 

I could not love thee, dear, so much, 
Loved I not honour more. 

To Lucasta, on going to the Wars. 
When flowing cups pass swiftly round 

With no allaying Thames. 2 

To Althea from Prison, ii. 
Fishes, that tipple in the deep, 

Know no such liberty. ibid. 

Stone walls do not a prison make, 

Nor iron bars a cage ; 
Minds innocent and quiet take 

That for an hermitage ; 
If I have freedom in my love, 

And in my soul am free, 
Angels alone that soar above 

Enjoy such liberty. ibid. iv. 

1 There is music in the beauty, and the silent note 
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an 
instrument. — Sir Thomas Browne, Relig. Med. Part 2. 

Cf. Byron, Bride ofAbydos, Canto i. St. 6. 

2 A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tyber 
in 't. — Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. Sc. 1. 

K 



1 62 Webster. 



JOHN WEBSTER. 1638. 

'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden ; 
the birds that are without despair to get in, and 
the birds that are within despair and are in a con- 
sumption, for fear they shall never get out. 1 

The White Devil Act i. Sc. 2. 

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, 
Since o'er shady groves they hover, 
And with leaves and flowers do cover 
The friendless bodies of unburied men. 

Ibid. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, 
But look'd to near have neither heat nor light. 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1 Le mariage est comme une forteresse assiegee ; ceux 
qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, et ceux qui sont de- 
dans veulent en sortir. — Un proverbe Arabe. Quitard, 
Etudes sicr les Proverbe s Francais. p. 102. 

It happens as with cages : the birds without despair 
to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Mon- 
taigne, Essays, Ch. v. Vol. iii. 

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been 
To public feasts, where meet a public rout, 
Where they that are without would fain go in, 
And they that are within would fain go out. 

Sir John Davis, Contention betwixt a Wife, 

a Widow, and a Maid. (From Davison's 

Poetical Rhapsody, Lond. 1826.) 

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, 

from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the 

institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to 

get in ? — Emerson, Representative Men : Montaigne. 



Cms haw. 163 



RICHARD CRASH AW. Circa 16 16 - 1650. 

The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 1 
Translation of Epigram on John ii. 

Whoe'er she be, 

That not impossible she, 

That shall command my heart and me. 

Wishes to his Supposed Mistress. 

Where'er she lie, 

Locked up from mortal eye, 

In shady leaves of destiny. ibid. 

Days that need borrow 

No part of their good morrow, 

From a fore-spent night of sorrow. ibid. 

Life that dares send 

A challenge to his end, 

And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend ! 

Ibid. 
Sydneian showers 

Of sweet discourse, whose powers 

Can crown old Winter's head with flowers. 

Ibid. 
A happy soul, that all the way 

To heaven hath a summer's day. 

In Praise of Les sins'* s Rule of Health. 

The modest front of this small floor, 
Believe me, reader, can say more 
Than many a braver marble can, — 
" Here lies a truly honest man ! " 

Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton. 

1 Nympha pudica Deurn vidit, et erubuit. 

Epig. Sacra. Aquce in vinum verses^ p. 299. 



1 64 Hey wood. — Denham. 

THOMAS HEYWOOD. 1649. 

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage 
Which God and nature do with actors fill. 

Apology for Actors. 1612. 

Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead ; 
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 1 

The Hier archie of the blessed Angells. Lond. 1635,/. 207. 



SIR JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668. 

Though with those streams he no resemblance 

hold, 
Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold ; 
His genuine and less guilty wealth f explore, 
Search out his bottom, but survey his shore. 

Cooper's Hill, Line 165. 

O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream 

My great example, as it is my theme ! 

Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not 

dull; 
Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. 

Line 189. 

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of 
the last year. The Sophy. A Tragedy. 

But whither am I strayed ? I need not raise 
Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise ; 
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built ; 

1 Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, 
Through which the living Homer begged his bread. 

Anon. 



DcnJiam. — Dekker. 165 

Denham continued.] 

Xor needs thy juster title the foul guilt 
Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, 
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred 
slain. 1 On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. 



THOMAS DEKKER. 1641. 

And though mine arm should conquer twenty 

worlds, 
There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. 

Old Fortunatiis. 
The best of men 
That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; 
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. 
The first true gentleman that ever breathed. 2 
The Honest Whore. Part i. Act i. Sc. 12. 

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. 

Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. 

To add to golden numbers, golden numbers. 
Patient Gr is sell. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Honest labour bears a lovely face. ibid. 

1 Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; 
For every author would his brother kill. 

Orrery, "in one of his Prologues." says Johnson. 
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 
Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 

Pope. Prologue to the S.:r: ■■■::. Line 197. 

2 Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, come Habra- 

ham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys ; and also the 

Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman 

Jhesus was borne. — Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry. 



1 66 Cowley. 



ABRAHAM COWLEY. 1618-1667. 

What shall I do to be for ever known, 
And make the age to come my own ? 

The Motto. 

His time is for ever, everywhere his place. 

Friendship in Absence, 

We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; 

But search of deep philosophy, 

Wit, eloquence, and poetry ; 
Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. 
Oft the Death of Mr. Willia??i Harvey. 

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. 1 

On the Death of Crashaw. 

We grieved, we sighed, we wept : we never 
blushed before. 
Discourse concerning the Gover?iment of Oliver Cromwell. 

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, 
And drinks and gapes for drink again ; 
The plants suck in the earth, and are 
With constant drinking fresh and fair. 

From A nacre on. Drinking. 

Why 
Should every creature drink but I ? 
Why, man of morals, tell me why ? ibid. 

1 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. iii. Line 306. 



Davenant, 167 

Cowley continued.] 

Th' adorning thee with so much art 

Is but a barb'rous skill \ 
'T is like the poisoning of a dart, 

Too apt before to kill. 

The Waiting Maid. 

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, 
But an eternal now does always last 1 

Davideis. Vol. i. Book 1. 

The monster London .... 

Let but thy wicked men from out thee go, 

And all the fools that crowd thee so, 

Even thou, who dost thy millions boast, 

A village less than Islington wilt grow, 

A solitude almost. Of Solitude. 

God the first garden made, and the first city 

Cam. The Garden. Essay v. 

Hence ye profane, I hate ye all, 
Both the great vulgar and the small. 

Horace. Book iii. Ode 1. 



SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. 1605-1668. 
Th' assembled souls of all that men held wise. 

Gondibert. Book ii. Canto v. St. 37. 

1 One of our poets (which 'is it?) speaks of an everlast- 
ing now. — Southey, The Doctor, p. 63. 

2 Cf. Cowper, p. 360. 



1 68 Waller. 



EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. 

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 1 
Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, 
As they draw near to their eternal home. 

Verses upon his Divine Poesy. 

Under the tropic is our language spoke, 
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke. 
Upon the Death of the Lord Protector. 

A narrow compass ! and yet there 
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair : 
Give me but what this riband bound, 
Take all the rest the sun goes round. 

On a Girdle. 

How small a part of time they share 
That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! 

Go, lovely rose. 

That eagle's fate and mine are one, 

Which, on the shaft that made him die, 

Espied a feather of his own, 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 2 

To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. 

The yielding marble of her snowy breast. 

On a Lady passing through a Crowd of People. 

1 Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts 
as harbingers to heaven ; and her soul saw a glimpse of 
happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. 
— Fuller, The Holy and the Profa?ie State, Book i. Ch. ii. 

2 Cf. Byron, p. 467. 



Marquis of Montrose. 169 

Waller continued.] 

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, 
And every conqueror creates a muse. 

Panegyric on Cromwell, 
For all we know 
Of what the blessed do above 
Is, that they sing and that they love. 

While I listen to thy voice. 

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, 
Could it be known what they discreetly blot. 
Upon Poscommon's Trans, of 'Horace ', De Arte Poetica. 

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, 
We should agree as angels do above. 

Divine Love. Canto iii. 



MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. 

He either fears his fate too much, 

Or his deserts are small, 
That dares not put it to the touch 

To gain or lose it all. 

My Dear and only Loz'e. 1 

I '11 make thee glorious by my pen, 
And famous by my sword. ibid. 

1 From Napier's Mem. of Montrose, Vol. i. App. xxxiv. 

That puts it not unto the touch, 
To win or lose it all. 
From Xapier's Montrose and the Covenanters, Vol ii. 
p. 566. 



17° Milton. 

JOHN MILTON. 1608- 1674. 
PARADISE LOST. 

Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world and all our woe. 

Book i. Line 1. 
Or if Sion hill 
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flowed 
Fast by the oracle of God. Book i. Line 10. 

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 

Book i. Line 16. 
What in me is dark 
Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 
That to the height of this great argument 
I may assert eternal Providence, 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

Book i. Line 22. 

As far as Angel's ken. Book i. Line 59. 

Yet from those flames 
No light, but rather darkness visible. 

Book i. Line 62. 

Where peace 
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, 
That comes to all. Book i. Line 65. 

What though the field be lost ? 
All is not lost ; th' unconquerable will, 
And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit or yield. 

Book i. Line 105. 



Milton. 1 7 1 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

To be weak is miserable, 
Doing or suffering. Book i. Line 157. 

And out of good still to find means of evil. 

Book i. Line 165. 
Farewell happy fields, 
Where joy for ever dwells : hail, horrors ; hail. 

Book i. Line 249. 

A mind not to be changed by place or time. 
The mind is its own place, and in itself 
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 

Book i. Line 253. 

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : 
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 

Book i. Line 261 

Heard so oft 
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge 

Of battle. Book i. Line 275. 

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, 
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast 
Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, 
He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 
Over the burning marie. Book L Line 292. 

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 
In Vallombrosa, where tlr Etrurian shades 
High over-arch r d imbower. Book i. Line 302. 

Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen ! 

Book i. Li7ie ■X'xo. 



172 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Spirits when they please 
Can either sex assume, or both. 

Book i. Line 423. 

Execute their airy purposes. Book i. Line 430. 

When night 
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. 

Book i. Line 500. 

Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanc'd, 
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. 

Book i. Line 536. 

Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds : 
At which the universal host up sent 
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond 
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. 

Book i. Line 540. 

In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood 

Of flutes and soft recorders. Book i. Line 550. 

His form had yet not lost 
All her original brightness, nor appear'd 
Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess 
Of glory obscured. Book i. Line 591. 

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 
On half the nations, and with fear of change 
Perplexes monarchs. Book i. Line 597. 

Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn 
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 

Book i. Line 619. 



Milton. 1 73 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

Who overcomes 
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 

Book i. Line 648. 

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell 
From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and 

thoughts 
Were always downward bent, admiring more 
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, 
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd 
In vision beatific. Book i. Line 679. 

Let none admire 
That riches grow in hell : that soil may best 
Deserve the precious bane. Book i. Line 690. 

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 

Rose, like an exhalation. Book I Line 710. 

From morn 
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, 
A summer's day ; and with the setting sun 
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star. 

Book i. Line 742. 

Faery elves, 
Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side, 
Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, 
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon 
Sits arbitress. Book i. Line 781. 

High on a throne of royal state, which far 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, 
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand 



1 74 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, 

Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 

To that bad eminence. Book ii. Line i. 

Surer to prosper than prosperity 

Could have assured us. Book ii. Line 39. 

The strongest and the fiercest spirit 
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. 

Book ii. Line 44. 

Rather than be less, 
Cared not to be at all. Book ii. Line 47. 

My sentence is for open war. Book ii. Line 51. 

That in our proper motion we ascend 

Up to our native seat : descent and fall 

To us is adverse. Book ii. Line 75. 

When the scourge 
Inexorable, and the torturing hour 
Call us to penance. Book ii. Line 90. 

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. 

Book ii. Line 105. 

But all was false and hollow : though his tongue 
Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason, to perplex and dash 
Maturest counsels. Book ii. Line 112. 

Th' ethereal mould 
Incapable of stain would soon expel 
Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, 
Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope 
Is flat despair. Book ii. Line 139. 



Milton. 175 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

For who would lose, 
Though full of pain, this intellectual being, 
Those thoughts that wander through eternity, 
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost 
In the wide womb of uncreated night ? 

Book ii. Line 146. 

His red right hand. 1 Book ii. Line 175. 

Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved. 

Book ii. Line 185. 

The never-ending flight 
Of future days. Book ii. Line 221. 

Our torments also may in length of time 
Become our elements. Book ii. Line 274. 

With grave 
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 
A pillar of state \ deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care ; 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 
Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, 
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear 
The weight of mightiest monarchies \ his look 
Drew audience and attention still as night 
Or summer's noontide air. Book ii. Line 300. 

The palpable obscure. Book ii. Line 406. 

Long is the way 
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. 

Book ii. Line 432. 

1 Rubente dextera. — Horace, Od. i. ii. 2. 



176 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Their rising all at once was as the sound 

Of thunder heard remote. Book ii. Line 476. 

The lowering element 
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. 

Book ii. Line 490. 

Oh, shame to men ! devil with devil damn'd 

Firm concord holds, men only disagree 

Of creatures rational. Book ii. Line 496. 

In discourse more sweet, 
For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense, 
Others apart sat on a hill retired, 
In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high 
Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. 

Book ii. Line 555. 

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. 

Book ii. Line 565. 

Arm the obdured breast 
With stubborn patience as with triple steel. 

Book ii. Line 568. 

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, 
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, 
Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air 
Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of lire. 
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd 
At certain revolutions all the damn'd 
Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change 
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more 
fierce, 



Milton. 177 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine 
Immovable, infix' d, and frozen round, 
Periods of time ; thence hurried back to fire. 

Book ii. Line 592. 

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades 
of death. Book ii. Line 620. 

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. 

Book ii. Line 628. 

The other shape — 
If shape it might be call'd that shape had none 
Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, 
Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, 
For each seem'd either — black it stood as night, 
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, 
And shook a dreadful dart. Book ii. Line 665. 

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ? 

Book ii. Line 63 1. 

Back to thy punishment, 
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. 

Book ii. Line 699. 

So spake the grisly terror. Book ii. Line 704. 

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood 

Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, 

That fires the length of Ophiucus huge 

In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 

Shakes pestilence and war. Book ii. Line 707. 
8* L 



178 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Their fatal hands 
No second stroke intend. Book it Line 712. 

Hell 
Grew darker at their frown. Book ii. Line 719. 

I fled, and cried out Death ! 
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd 
From all her caves, and back resounded Death. 

Book ii. Line 787. 

Before mine eyes in opposition sits 

Grim Death, my son and foe. Book ii. Line 803. 

Death 
Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear 
His famine should be filled. Book ii. Line 845. 

On a sudden open fly 
With impetuous recoil and jarring sound 
Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate 
Harsh thunder. Book ii. Line 879. 

Where eldest Night 
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand : 
For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions 

fierce, 
Strive here for mastery. Book ii. Line 894. 

Into this wild abyss, 
The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. 

Book ii. Line 910. 



Milton. 179 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, 

or rare, 
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, 
And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 

Book ii. Line 948. 

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 
Confusion worse confounded. 

Book ii. Line 995. 

So he with difficulty and labour hard 
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. 

Book ii. Li7ie 102 1. 

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain 
This pendent world, in bigness as a star 
Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. 

Book ii. Line 1051. 

Hail, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born. 

Book iii. Line 1. 

The rising world of waters dark and deep. 

Book iii. Line II. 

Thoughts, that voluntary move 
Harmonious numbers. Book iii. Line 37. 

Thus with the year 
Seasons return ; but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 
Or flock, or herds, or human face divine ; 
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 
Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men 
Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair 



180 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Presented with a universal blank 

Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, 

And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 

Book iii. Line 48. 

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. 

Book iii. Line 99. 

Dark with excessive bright. Book iii. Line 380. 

Eremites and friars, 
White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery. 

Book iii. Line 474. 

Since called 
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 

Book iii. Line 495. 

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps 
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity 
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill 
Where no ill seems. Book iii. Line 686. 

The hell within him. Book iv. Line 20. 

Now conscience wakes despair 
That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory 
Of what he was, what is, and what must be. 

Book iv. Line 23. 

At whose sight all the stars 
Hide their diminish'd heads. 

Book iv. Line 34. 

A grateful mind 
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once 
Indebted and discharg'd. Book iv. Line 55. 



Milton. 181 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

Which way shall I fly 
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? 
Which way I fly is hell • myself am hell ; 
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, 
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, 
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. 

Book iv. Line 73. 

Such joy ambition finds. Book iv. Line 92. 

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, 
Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost. 
Evil, be thou my good. Book iv. Line 108. 

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, 
Deep malice to conceal couch" d with revenge. 

Book iv. Li7ie 122. 

Sabean odours from the spicy shore 

Of- Arabie the blest. Book iv. Line 162. 

And on the Tree of Life 
The middle tree and highest there that grew, 
Sat like a cormorant. Book iv. Line 194. 

A heaven on earth. Book iv. Line 208. 

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. 

Book iv. Line 256. 

For contemplation he and valour form'd, 
For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; 
He for God only, she for God in him. 
His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd 
Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks 
Round from his parted forelock manly hung 
Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad. 

Book iv. Line 297. • 



1 82 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Implied 
Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, 
And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd, 
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, 
And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. 

Book iv. Line 307. 

Adam the goodliest man of men since born 
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 

Book iv. Line 323. 

And with necessity, 
The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. 

Book iv. Line 393. 

As Jupiter 
On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds 
That shed May flowers. Book iv. Line 499. 

Imparadis'd in one another's arms. 

Book iv. Line 505. 

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad ; 
Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, 
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale \ 
She all night long her amorous descant sung ; 
Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament 
With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 
Rising in clouded majesty, at length 
Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, 
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 

Book iv. Line 598. 



Milton. 183 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

The timely dew of sleep. Book iv. Line 614. 

With thee conversing I forget all time \ 
All seasons and their change, all please alike. 
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, 
With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, 
When first on this delightful land he spreads 
His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, 
Glisf ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth 
After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on 
Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night 
With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, 
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : 
But neither breath of morn when she ascends 
With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun 
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, 
Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, 
Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night 
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, 
Or glitt'ring starlight, without thee is sweet. 

Book iv. Line 639. 

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. 

Book iv. Line 677. 

Eas'd the putting off 
These troublesome disguises which we wear. 

Book iv. Line 739. 
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring. Book iv. Line 750. 

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 

Book iv. Line 800. 



1 84 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear 
Touch'd lightly ; for no falsehood can endure 
Touch of celestial temper. Book iv. Line 810. 

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, 
The lowest of your throng. Book iv. Line 830. 

Abash'd the devil stood, 
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw 
Virtue in her shape how lovely. 

Book iv. Line 846. 

All hell broke loose. Book iv. Line 918. 

Like Teneriff or Atlas unremov'd. 

Book iv. Line 987. 

The starry cope 
Of heaven. Book iv. Line 992. 

Fled 
Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night. 

Book iv. Line 10 14. 

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime 
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, 
When Adam wak'd, so custom'd, for his sleep 
Was aery-light, from pure digestion bred. 

Book v. Line 3. 

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld 
Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, 
Shot forth peculiar graces. Book v. Line 13. 

My latest found, 
Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight. 

Book v. Line 18. 



Milton. 185 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

Good, the more 
Communicated, more abundant grows. 

Book v. Line 71. 

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! 

Book v. Line 153. 

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, 
If better thou belong not to the dawn. 

Book v. Line 166. 

A wilderness of sweets. Book v. Line 294. 

Another morn 
Risen on mid-noon. Book v. Line 310. 

So saying, with despatchful looks in haste 
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. 

Book v. Line 331. 

Nor jealousy 
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. 

Book v. Line 449. 

The bright consummate flower. 

Book v. Line 481. 

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, pow- 
ers. Book v. Line 601. 

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet 
Quaff immortality and joy. Book v. Line 637. 

Satan ; so call him now, his former name 
Is heard no more in heaven. 

Book v. Line 658. 

Midnight brought on the dusky hour 
Friendliest to sleep and silence. 

Book v. Line 66j. 



1 86 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Innumerable as the stars of night, 

Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun 

Impearls on every leaf and every flower. 

Book v. Line 745. 

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found 
Among the faithless, faithful only he. 

Book v. Line 896. 

Morn, 
Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand 

Unbarr'd the gates of light. 

Book vi. Line 2. 

Servant of God, well done. Book vi. Line 29. 

Arms on armour clashing bray'd 
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels 
Of brazen chariots rag'd ; dire was the noise 
Of conflict. Book vi. Line 209. 

Far off his coming shone. Book vi. Line 768. 

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd 
To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, 
On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues. 

Book vii. Line 24. 

Still govern thou my song, 
Urania, and fit audience find, though few. 

Book vii. Line 30. 

Heaven open'd wide 
Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound 
On golden hinges moving. Book vii. Line 205. 



Milton. 187 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

Hither, as to their fountain, other stars 
Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. 

Book vii. Line 364. 

Now half appear'd 
The tawny lion, pawing to get free 
His hinder parts. Book vii. Line 463. 

Indued 
With sanctity of reason. Book vii. Line 507. 

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear 
So charming left his voice, that he awhile 
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. 

Book viii. Line 1. 
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay. 

Book viii. Line 43. 

And, touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew. 

Book viii. Line 47. 

With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, 
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. 

Book viii. Line 83. 

To know 
That which before us lies in daily life, 
Is the prime wisdom. Book viii. Line 192. 

Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. 

Book viii. Line 263. 

And feel that I am happier than I know. 

Book viii. Line 282. 

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture dignity and love. 

Book viii. Line 488. 



1 88 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, 
That would be wooed, and not unsought be won. 

Book viii. Line 502. 
She what was honour knew, 
And with obsequious majesty approv'd 
My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower 
I led her, blushing like the morn : all heaven, 
And happy constellations on that hour 
Shed their selectest influence ; the earth 
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill ; 
Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs 
Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings 
Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub. 

Book viii. Line 508. 

So well to know 
Her own, that what she wills to do or say 
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. 

Book viii. Line 548. 

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part ; 

Do thou but thine. Book viii. Line 561. 

Those graceful acts, 
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow 
From all her words and actions. 

Book viii. Line 600. 

To whom the angel with a smile that glow'd 
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. 

Book viii. Line 618. 

My unpremeditated verse. Book ix. Line 23. 

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. 

Book ix. Line 26. 



Milton. 189 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

Unless an age too late, or cold 
Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. 

Book ix. Line 44. 

Revenge, at first though sweet, 
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. 

Book ix. Line 171. 

The work under our labour grows, 
Luxurious by restraint. Book ix. Line 208. 

Smiles from reason flow, 
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. 

Book ix. Line 239. 

For solitude sometimes is best society, 
And short retirement urges sweet return. 

Book ix. Line 249. 

At shut of evening flowers. Book ix. Line 278. 

As one who long in populous city pent, 
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. 

Book ix. Line 445. 

So glozed the tempter. Book ix. Line 549. 

Hope elevates, and joy 
Brightens his crest. Book ix. Line 633. 

v Left that command 

Sole daughter of his voice. 1 Book ix. Line 652. 

Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, 
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, 
That all was lost. Book ix. Line 782. 

1 Cf. Wordsworth, Ode to Duty, p. 419. 



190 Milton. 

[Paradise Lost continued. 

In her face excuse 
Came prologue, and apology too prompt. 

Book ix. Line 853. 

A pillar'd shade 
High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. 

Book ix. Line 1106. 

Yet I shall temper so 
Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most 
Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. 

Book x. Line J J. 

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn 'd 
His nostril wide into the murky air, 
Sagacious of his quarry from so far. 

Book x. Line 279. 

How gladly would I meet 
Mortality my sentence, and be earth 
Insensible ! how glad would lay me down 
As in my mother's lap ! Book x. Line 775. 

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave 
Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades ? 

Book xi. Line 269. 

Then purged with euphrasy and rue 
The visual nerve, for he had much to see. 

Book xi. Line 414. 

Moping melancholy, 
And moon-struck madness. Book xi. Line 485. 

And over them triumphant Death his dart 
Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd. 

Book xi. Line 491. 



Milton. 191 

Paradise Lost continued.] 

So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop 
Into thy mother's lap. Book xi. Line 535. 

Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st 
Live well ; how long or short permit to heaven. 1 

Book xi. Line 553. 

A bevy of fair women. Book xi. Line 582. 

Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them 

soon ; 
The world was all before them, where to choose 
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. 
They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and 

slow, 
Through Eden took their solitary way. 

Book xii. Line 645. 



PARADISE REGAINED. 

Beauty stands 
In the admiration only of weak minds 
Led captive. Book ii. Line 220. 

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. 

Book ii. Line 228. 

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. 

Book iii. Line 56. 

Elephants endors'd with towers. 

Book iii. Line 329. 

1 Summum nee metuas diem, nee optes. — Martial, lib. 
x. 47 ; 14. 



192 Milton. 

[Paradise Regained continued. 

Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, 
Meroe, Nilotic isle. Book iv. Line 70. 

Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd. 

Book iv. Line 76. 

The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day. 1 Book iv. Line 220. 

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence. Book iv. Line 240. 

The olive grove of Academe, 
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird 
Trills her thick- warbled notes the summer long. 

Book iv. Line 244. 

Thence to the famous orators repair, 
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democratic, 
Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, 
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. 

Book iv. Line 267. 

Socrates .... 

Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd 

Wisest of men. Book iv. Line 274. 

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. 

Book iv. Line 327. 

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. 2 

Book iv. Line 330. 

Till morning fair 
Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray. 

Book iv. Line 426. 

1 Cf. Wordsworth, p. 401. 

2 Cf. Newton, p. 237. 



Milton. 193 



SAM SOX AGOXISTES. 
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon ! 

Line 80. 

The sun to me is dark 

And silent as the moon, 

When she deserts the night 

Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Line 86. 

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron. 

Line 129. 

Just are the ways of God, 

And justifiable to men ; 

Unless there be who think not God at all. 

Line 293. 

What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe ? Line 560. 

But who is this ? what thing of sea or land ? 
Female of sex it seems, 
That so bedecked, ornate, and gay, 
Comes this way sailing 
Like a stately ship 
Of Tarsus, bound for tlr isles 
Of J avan or Gadire, 

"With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, 
Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, 
Courted by all the winds that hold them play, 
An amber scent of odorous perfume 
Her harbinger. Line 710. 

9 M 



194 Milton. 

[Samson Agonistes continued. 

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report 
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame ? 

Line 1350. 

For evil news rides post, while good news baits. 

Line 1538. 

And as an evening dragon came, 

Assailant on the perched roosts 

And nests in order rang'd 

Of tame villatic fowl. Line 1692. 

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail 
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, 
Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, 
And what may quiet us in a death so noble. 

Line 172 1. 



COMUS. 

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 
Which men call Earth. Line 5. 

That golden key 
That opes the palace of eternity. Line '13. 

The nodding horror of whose shady brows. 

Line 38. 

The star that bids the shepherd fold. Line 93. 

Midnight shout and revelry, 

Tipsy dance and jollity. Line 103. 



Milton. 195 

Comus continued.] 

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, 

The nice morn, on the Indian steep 

From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. 

Line 138. 

When the gray-hooded Even, 
Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, 
Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain. 

Line 188. 

A thousand fantasies 
Begin to throng into my memory, 
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, 
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names 
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. 

Line 205. 

O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, 
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings ! 

Line 213. 

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud 
Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? 

Line 221. 

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 
Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? 

Line 244. 

How sweetly did they float upon the wings 
Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 
At every fall smoothing the raven down 
Of darkness till it smiled. Line 249. 

W 7 ho, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul 
And lap it in Elysium. Line 256. 



196 Milton. 

[Comus continued. 

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Line 263. 

I took it for a faery vision 

Of some gay creatures of the element, 

That in the colours of the rainbow live 

And play i' th' plighted clouds. Line 298. 

It were a journey like the path to heaven, 
To help you find them. Line 303. 

With thy long-levell'd rule of streaming light. 

Line 340. 

Virtue could see to do what virtue would 

By her own radiant light, though sun and moon 

Were in the flat sea sunk. Line 373. 

He that has light within his own clear breast 
May sit in the centre and enjoy bright day ; 
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts 
Benighted walks under the midday sun. 

Line 381. 
The unsunn'd heaps 
Of miser's treasure. Line 398. 

T is chastity, my Brother, chastity : 

She that has that is clad in complete steel. 

Line 420. 

Some say no evil thing that walks by night 
In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, 
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost 
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 
No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, 
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. 

Line 432. 



Milton. 197 

Comus continued.] 

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, 
That, when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. 

Line 453. 
How charming is divine philosophy ! 
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose ; 
But musical as is Apollo's lute, 1 
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, 
Where no crude surfeit reigns. Line 476. 

Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance. 

Line 550. 

I was all ear, 
And took in strains that might create a soul 
Under the ribs of death. Line 560. 

If this fail, 
The pillar' d firmament is rottenness, 
And earth's base built on stubble. Line 597. 

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, 
But in another country, as he said, 
Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : 
Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain 
Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. 

Line 631. 

Enter'd the very lime-twigs of his spells, 
And yet came off. Line 646. 

1 As sweet and musical 
As bright Apollo's lute. 

Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



198 Milton. 

[Comus continued. 

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. 

Line 727. 

It is for homely features to keep home, 
They had their name thence. Line 748. 

What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, 
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ? 

Line 752. 

Swinish gluttony 
Ne'er looks to heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Line 777. 

Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, 
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. 

Line 790. 

His rod revers'd, 
And backward mutters of dissevering power. 

Line 816. 
Sabrina fair, 

Listen where thou art sitting 
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, 

In twisted braids of lilies knitting 
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. 

Line 859. 

But now my task is smoothly done, 

I can fly, or I can run. Line 10 12. 

Or, if Virtue feeble were, 

Heaven itself would stoop to her. Line 1022. 



Milton. 199 



LYCIDAS. 

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, 
And with forc'd fingers rude, 
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 

Line 3. 

He knew 
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 

Line 10. 

Without the meed of some melodious tear. 

Line 14. 

Under the opening eyelids of the morn. 

Line 26. 
The gadding vine. Line 40. 

And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. 

Line 66. 

To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, 

Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. Line 68. 

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise Y 
(That last infirmity of noble mind) 
To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life. Line 70. 

1 Erant quibus appetentior famae videretur, quando 
etiam sapientibus cupido glorias novissima exuitur. — 
Tacitus, Histo7\ iv. 6. 



200 Milton. 

[Lycidas continued. 

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. 

Line 78. 

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 
Built in the eclipse and rigg'd with curses dark. 

Line 100. 

The pilot of the Galilean lake. Line 109. 

Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, 
That on the green turf suck the honied showers, 
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. 
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, 
The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, 
The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, 
The glowing violet, 

The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd wood-bine, 
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, 
And every flower that sad embroidery wears. 

Line 139. 

So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, 
And yet anon repairs his drooping head, 
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. 

Line 168. 

To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. 

Line 193. 

ARCADES. 

Under the shady roof 

Of branching elm star-proof. Line %%. 



Milton. 20 1 

L' ALLEGRO. 

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 
Jest, and youthful jollity, 
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, 
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. 

Line 25. 

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, 

And Laughter holding both his sides. 

Come, and trip it as you go, 

On the light fantastic toe. Line 31. 

And every shepherd tells his tale 

Under the hawthorn in the dale. Line 67. 

Meadows trim with daisies pied, 

Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; 

Towers and battlements it sees 

Bosom' d high in tufted trees, 

Where perhaps some beauty lies, 

The cynosure of neighboring eyes. Line 75. 

Herbs, and other country messes, 
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. 

Line 85. 

To many a youth, and many a maid, 
Dancing in the chequer'd shade. Line 95. 

Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. Line 100. 

Tower'd cities please us then, 
And the busy hum of men. Line 117. 

9 * 



202 Milton. 

[L' Allegro continued. 

Ladies, whose bright eyes 
Rain influence, and judge the prize. Line 121. 

Such sights as youthful poets dream 

On summer eves by haunted stream. 

Then to the well-trod stage anon, 

If Jonson's learned sock be on, 

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 

Warble his native wood-notes wild. Line 129. 

And ever, against eating cares 

Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 

Married to immortal verse, 

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, 

In notes, with many a winding bout 

Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Line 135. 

Untwisting all the chains that tie 

The hidden soul of harmony. Line 143. 

IL PENSEROSO. 

The gay motes that people the sunbeams. 

Line 8. 
And looks commercing with the skies, 
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Line 39. 

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, 
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. 

Line 45. 

And add to these retired Leisure, 
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. 

Line 49. 



Milton. 203 

II Penseroso continued.] 

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, 
Most musical, most melancholy ! Line 61. 

To behold the wandering moon, 

Riding near her highest noon, 

Like one that had been led astray 

Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; 

And oft, as if her head she bow'd, 

Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Line 67. 

Where glowing embers through the room 
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. Line 79. 

Save the cricket on the hearth. Line 82. 

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy 

In sceptred pall come sweeping by, 

Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, 

Or the tale of Troy divine. Line 97. 

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 

Such notes as, warbled to the string, 

Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. Line 105. 

Or call up him that left half told 

The story of Cambuscan bold. Line 109. 

Where more is meant than meets the ear. 

Line 120. 

Ending on the rustling leaves, 

W T ith minute drops from off the eaves. 

Line 129. 
And storied windows richly dight, 

Casting a dim religious light. Line 159. 

Till old experience do attain 

To something like prophetic strain. Line 173. 



204 Milton. 

Nor war or battle's sound 
Was heard the world around. 

Hymn on Chris? s Nativity. Line 53. 

Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold. 

Line 135. 

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 

Line 172. 
The oracles are dumb, 

No voice or hideous hum 

Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. 

Apollo from his shrine 

Can no more divine, 

With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 

No nightly trance, or breathed spell 

Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic 

Cell. Line 173. 

From haunted spring, and dale 
Edg'd with poplar pale, 
The parting genius is with sighing sent. 

Line 184. 
Peor and Baalim 

Forsake their temples dim. Line 197. 

Under a star-y-pointing pyramid. 

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. 

Epitaph on Shakespeare, Line 4. 

And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, 
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. 

Line 15. 



Milton. 205 

SONNETS. 
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. 

To the Nightingale. 

As ever in my great task-master's eye. 

On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty- Three. 

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare 

The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower 

Went to the ground. 

When the Assault was intended to the City. 

That old man eloquent. 

To the Lady Margaret Ley. 

That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 
On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing 
Certain Treatises. 

License they mean when they cry liberty. 

On the Same, 

Peace hath her victories 
No less renown'd than war. 

To the Lord General Cromwell. 

Thousands at His bidding speed, 
And post o'er land and ocean without rest ; 
They also serve who only stand and wait. 

On his Blindness. 
In mirth, that after no repenting draws. 

To Cyriac Skinner. 

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains. 
And disapproves that care, though wise in show, 

That with superfluous burden loads the day, 
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. 

Lbid. 



206 Milton. 

[Sonnets continued. 

Yet I argue not 
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer 

Right onward. To the Same. 

Of which all Europe rings from side to side. 

Ibid. 

But O, as to embrace me she inclin'd, 
I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my 
night. On his Deceased Wife. 



Have hung 
My dank and dropping weeds 
To the stern god of sea. 

Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5. 

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any out- 
ward touch as the sunbeam. 

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. 

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, 
with his garland and singing robes about him. 
The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. 

By labour and intent study (which I take to be 
my portion in this life), joined with the strong 
propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave some- 
thing so written to after times, as they should 
not willingly let it die. ibid. 

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in 
the quiet and still air of delightful studies. 

Ibid. 



Milton, 207 

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to 
write well hereafter in laudable things ought him- 
self to be a true poem. 

Apology for Smectymnuus. 

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing 
fees. Tractate of Education. 

I shall detain you no longer in the demonstra- 
tion of w T hat we should not do, but strait conduct 
ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the 
right path of a virtuous and noble education ; 
laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so 
smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and 
melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of 
Orpheus was not more charming. ibid. 

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the 
air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and 
sullenness against Nature not to go out and see 
her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with 
heaven and earth. ibid. 

Enflamed with the study of learning and the 
admiration of virtue ; stirred up with high hopes 
of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, 
dear to God, and famous to all ages. ibid. 

As good almost kill a man as kill a good 
book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable crea- 
ture, God's image ; but he who destroys a good 
book kills reason itself. Areopagitica. 



208 Milton. 

A good book is the precious life-blood of a 
master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on pur- 
pose to a life beyond life. Areopagitka. 

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, 
unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies 
out and seeks her adversary. ibid. 

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puis- 
sant nation rousing herself like a strong man after 
sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks 
I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, 
and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid- 
day beam. ibid. 

Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a 
free and open encounter ? ibid. 

By this time, like one who had set out on his 
way by night, and travelled through a region of 
smooth and idle dreams, our history now arrives 
on the confines, where daylight and truth meet 
us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, 
though at far distance, true colours and shapes. 

History of England. Book i. ad Jin. 

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes 
by transgressing most truly kept the law. 

Tetra rch or don . 

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not 
bettered by the borrower, among good authors is 
accounted Plagiare. Iconodastes, xxiv. ad fin. 



Fuller. 209 

THOMAS FULLER. 1608-1661. 

THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE STATE. 

Ed. Nichols, 1841. 

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious 
thoughts as harbingers to heaven ; and her soul 
saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks 
of her sickness-broken body. 1 

The Life of Mo?tica. 

But our captain counts the image of God, 
nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done 
in ivory. The Good Sea-Captain. 

The lion is not so fierce as painted. 2 

Of Expecti?ig Preferment. 

Their heads sometimes so little, that there is 
no room for wit ; sometimes so long, that there 

is no Wit for SO much room. Of Natural Fools. 

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, 
have forgotten the names of their founders. 

Of Tombs. 

Learning hath gained most by those books by 
which the printers have lost. Of Books. 

They that marry ancient people, merely in ex- 
pectation to bury them, hang themselves, in hope 
that one will come and cut the halter. 

Of Marriage. 

1 Cf. Waller, p. 167. 

2 The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. — Herbert, 
Jacula Prudentum. 

N 



2 1 Rochefoucauld. 

[Fuller continued. 

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome 
for the body ; no less are thoughts of mortality 
Cordial to the SOul. The Court Lady. 

Often the cockloft is empty, in those whom 
Nature hath built many stories high. 1 

Andronicus. Ad. fin. I. 



FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
1613- 1680. 

Philosophy triumphs easily over past, and over 
future evils, but present evils triumph over phi- 
losophy. 2 Maxim 23. 

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays 
to virtue. Maxim 227. 

In the adversity of our best friends we often 
find something which does not displease us. 3 

Maxim 245. 

1 My Lord St. Albans said that wise nature did never 
put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, 
and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty 
heads. — Bacon, Apothegm, No 17. 

2 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, 
but an arrant jade on a journey. — Goldsmith, The Good- 
Natured Man, Act i. 

3 I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and 
that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of 
others. — Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful. Ft. 1, Sec 
14, 15. 



Basse. — Vaughan. 211 



WILLIAM BASSE. 1613-1648. 

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh 
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie 
A little nearer Spenser, to make room 
For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. 1 

On Shakespeare. 



HENRY VAUGHAN. 1621-1695. 

I see them walking in an air of glory 
Whose light doth trample on my days ; 

My days which are at best but dull and hoary, 
Mere glimmering and decays. 

They are all gone. 

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just. 

Ibid. 

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams 

Call to the soul when man doth sleep, 

So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted 

themes, 
And into glory peep. ibid. 

1 I will not lodge thee by 
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A little further, to make thee a room. 

Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare. 



212 Butler. 

SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600 -1680. 

HUDIBRAS. 

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, 
Was beat with fist instead of a stick. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 11. 

We grant, altho' he had much wit, 
He was very shy of using it. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 45. 

Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek 
As naturally as pigs squeak ; 
That Latin was no more difficile 
Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 51. 

He could distinguish, and divide 

A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 6j. 

For rhetoric, he could not ope 

His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 81. 

For all a rhetorician's rules 

Teach nothing but to name his tools. 

Part i. Ca?ito i. Line 89. 

For he, by geometric scale, 
Could take the size of pots of ale. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 121. 

And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 
The clock does strike, by Algebra. 

Parti. Canto i. Line 125. 



Butler. 213 

Hudibras continued.] 

Whatever sceptic could inquire for, 
For every why he had a wherefore. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 131 

Where entity and quiddity, 
The ghosts of defunct bodies fly. 

Part i. Canto \. Line 145. 

He knew what 's what, and that 's as high 1 
As metaphysic wit can fly. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 149. 

Such as take lodgings in a head 
That 's to be let unfurnished. 2 

Part i. Canto i. Line 161. 

T was Presbyterian true blue. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 19 1. 
And prove their doctrine orthodox, 
By apostolic blows and knocks. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 199. 

Compound for sins they are inclined to, 
By damning those they have no mind to. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 2 1 5. 

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, 
For w r ant of fighting was grown rusty, 
And ate into itself for lack 
Of somebody to hew and hack. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 359. 

1 He said he knew what was what. — Skelton, Why 
come ye not to Courte ? Li)ie 11 06. 

2 Often the cockloft is empty in those 'whom Nature 
hath built many stories high. — Fuller, Holy and Profane 
State. Andronicus, Ad. fin. 1. 



214 Butler. 

[Hudibras continued. 

For rhyme jjp rudder is of verses, 

With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 463. 

And force them, though it were in spite 
Of Nature, and their stars, to write. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 647. 

Quoth Hudibras, " I smell a rat j 1 
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate." 

Part i. Canto i. Line 821. 

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. 2 

Part i. Canto i. L.ine 852. 

With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, 
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang. 

Part i. Canto ii. Line 831. 

Ay me ! what perils do environ 

The man that meddles with cold iron. 3 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1. 

Nor do I know what is become 

Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 263. 

He had got a hurt 
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 309. 

1 See Proverbs, p. 610. 

2 And so his Highness schal have thereof, but as had 
the man that scheryd his Hogge, moche Crye and no Wull. 
— Fortescue (1395 -1485), Treatise on Absolute and 
Limited Mo?iarchy, Ch. x. 

3 Ay me, how many perils do enfold 
The righteous man, to make him daily fall. 

Spenser, Faerie Quee7te i Book i. Canto 8. St. I. 



Butler, 2 1 5 

Hudibras continued.] 

For those that run away, and fly, 
Take place at least o' th' enemy. 1 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 609. 

I am not now in fortune's power : 
He that is down can fall no lower. 2 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 877. 

Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse, 
And sayings of philosophers. 

Parti. Canto iii. Line ion. 
If he that in the field is slain 
Be in the bed of honour lain, 
He that is beaten may be said 
To lie in honour's truckle-bed. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1047. 

When pious frauds and holy shifts 
Are dispensations and gifts. 

Parti. Canto iii. Line 1 145. 

Friend Ralph, thou hast 
Outrun the constable at last. 

Parti. Ca?tto iii. Line 1367. 
Some force whole regions, in despite 
O' geography, to change their site ; 
Make former times shake hands with latter, 
And that which was before, come after ; 
But those that write in rhyme still make 
The one verse for the other's sake ; 
For one for sense, and one for rhyme, 
I think 's sufficient at one time. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 23. 

1 See page 586. 

2 Cf. Bunyan, p. 231. 



216 Butler. 

[Hudibras continued. 

Some have been beaten till they know 
What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow ; 
Some kick'd until they can feel whether 
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 221. 

Quoth she, I Ve heard old cunning stagers 
Say, fools for arguments use wagers. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 297. 

For what is worth in anything, 

But so much money as 't will bring ? 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 465. 

Love is a boy by poets styPd \ 

Then spare the rod and spoil the child. 1 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 843. 

The sun had long since in the lap 
Of Thetis taken out his nap, 
And, like a lobster boiled, the morn 
From black to red began to turn. 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29. 

Have always been at daggers-drawing, 
And one another clapper-clawing. 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79. 

For truth is precious and divine, 
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257. 

He that imposes an oath makes it, 
Not he that for convenience takes it : 

1 He that spareth his rod hateth his son. — Proverbs, 
ch. xiii. 24. 



Butler. 2 1 7 

Hudibras continued.] 

Then how can any man be said 
To break an oath he never made ? 

Part ii. Cajito ii. Line 377. 

As the ancients 
Say wisely, Have a care o' th' main chance, 1 
And look before you ere you leap -, 1 
For as you sow, y' are like to reap. 2 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501. 

Doubtless the pleasure is as great 
Of being cheated, as to cheat. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1. 

He made an instrument to know 
If the moon shine at full or no. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261. 

Each window like a pill'ry appears, 

With heads thrust thro' nailed by the ears. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391. 

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catched, 
And count their chickens ere they 're hatched. 
Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923. 

There 's but the twinkling of a star 
Between a man of peace and war. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957. 

As quick as lightning in the breech, 
Just in the place where honour 's lodged, 

1 See Proverbs, p. 607. 

2 Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. — 
Galatians, ch. vi. 7. 

Cf. Tusser, ante, p. 7. 
10 



218 Butler. 

[Hudibras continued. 

As wise philosophers have judged ; 
Because a kick in that place more 
Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1067. 

As men of inward light are wont 
To turn their optics in upon 't 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 481. 

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, 
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 687. 

What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? 
About two hundred pounds a year. 
And that which was proved true before, 
Prove false again ? Two hundred more. 

Part iii. Canto i. Li7ie 1277. 

'Cause grace and virtue are within 
Prohibited degrees of kin ; 
And therefore no true saint allows 
They should be suffer'd to espouse. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293. 

Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 
Though he gave his name to our old Nick. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 13 13. 
With crosses, relics, crucifixes, 
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes ; 
The tools of working out Salvation 
By mere mechanic operation. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495. 
True as the dial to the sun, 
Although it be not shin'd upon. 

Pari iii. Canto ii. Line 175. 



MarvelL 2 1 9 

Hudibras continued.] 

For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that 's slain. 1 

Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243. 

He that complies against his will 
Is of his own opinion still. 

Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547. 

With books and money plac'd for show, 
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, 
And for his false opinion pay. 

Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624. 



ANDREW MARVELL. 1620- 1678. 

And all the way, to guide their chime, 
With falling oars they kept the time. 

Bermudas. 

In busy companies of men. 

The Garden. (Translated.) 

Annihilating all that 's made 

To a green thought in a green shade. ibid. 

The world in all doth but two nations bear, 
The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere. 

The Loyal Scot. 

The inglorious arts of peace. 

Upon CromwelVs return fro?n Ireland. 
He nothing common did, or mean, 
Upon that memorable scene. Ibid. 

So much one man can do, 

That does both act and know. Ibid. 

1 See page 586, 



220 Dry den. 

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701. 
ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
None but the brave deserves the fair. Line 15. 
With ravish'd ears 
The monarch hears, 
Assumes the god, 
Affects to nod, 
And seems to shake the spheres. Line 37. 

Bacchus, ever fair and young. Line 54. 

Rich the treasure, 
Sweet the pleasure, 
Sweet is pleasure after pain. Line 58. 

Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; 

Fought all his battles o'er again ; 

And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he 

slew the slain. Line 66. 

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, 
Fallen from his high estate, 

And weltering in his blood ; 
Deserted, at his utmost need, 
By those his former bounty fed ; 
On the bare earth expos'd he lies, 
With not a friend to close his eyes. Line 77. 

For pity melts the mind to love. Line 96. 

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, 
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. 
War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; 



Dry den. 221 

Alexander's Feast continued.] 

Honour, but an empty bubble ; 

Never ending, still beginning, 
Fighting still, and still destroying. 

If all the world be worth the wanning, 
Think, O think it worth enjoying : 

Lovely Thais sits beside thee, 

Take the good the gods provide thee. 

Line 97. 
Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again. 

Line 120. 

And, like another Helen, nYd another Troy. 

Line 154. 

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 

Line 160. 
He rais'd a mortal to the skies, 

She drew an angel down. Line 169. 

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. 

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, 
In him alone \ was natural to please. 

Part i. Line 27. 
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, 
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, 
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. 1 

Part i. Line 156. 
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 2 

Part i. Line 163. 

1 He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager 
soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to 
fret a passage through it. — Fuller, Holy and Profane State. 
Life of Duke d^Alva. 

2 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. 1, Line 226. 



222 Dry den. 

[Absalom and Achitophel continued. 

And all to leave what with his toil he won, 
To that unfeatherd two-legg'd thing, a son. 

Part i. Lme 169. 

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. 

Part i. Line 1 74. 

And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 
But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, 
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. 1 

Part i. Line 197. 

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, 
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream ! 2 

Part i. Line 238. 

Behold him setting in his western skies, 
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. 3 

Part i. Line 268. 

Than a successive title, long and dark, 
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. 

Part i. Line 30 1. 

Not only hating David, but the king. 

Part i. Line 512. 

Who think too little, and who talk too much. 

Part i. Line 534. 

1 Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, 
And leaves, for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land. 

From Knolles's History (under a portrait of Mustapha I.). 

2 Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men 
shall see visions. — Joel ii. 28. 

3 Cf. Young, Night Thoughts, v. 661. 



Dry den. 22$ 

Absalom and Achitophel continued.] 

A man so various, that he seem'd to be 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, 
Was everything by starts, and nothing long. 
But in the course of one revolving moon, 
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 1 

Part i. Line 545. 

So over-violent, or over-civil, 
That every man with him was God or Devil. 

Part i. Line 557. 

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. 

Part i. Line 645. 

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense 
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. 

Part i. Line 868. 

Beware the fury of a patient man. 2 

Part i. Line 1005. 

Made still a blundering kind of melody ; 
Spurr'd boldly on, and daslrd through thick and 

thin, 
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in. 

Part ii. Line 413. 

For every inch that is not fool is rogue. 

Part ii. Line 463. 

1 Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, 
Augur, schosnobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit. * 

Juvenal, Sat. iii. Line 76. 

2 Furor fit lassa saepius patientia. — Publius Syrus. 



224 Dry den. 



CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. 

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

Line 84- 
Th e fool of nature stood with stupid eyes, ■ 
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 

Line 107. 

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence. 
Sex to the last. 1 Line 367. 

And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 
Mouths without hands : maintained at vast ex- 
pense, 
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; 
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, 
And ever, but in times of need, at hand. 

Line 400. 

Of seeming arms to make a short essay, 

Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. 

Line 407. 

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, 
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 
The wise for cure on exercise depend \ 
God never made his work for man to mend. 

Epistle xiii. LJne 92. 

And threatening France, plac'd like a painted 

Jove, 
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 

Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39. 

1 Cf. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard> Line 192. 



Dry den. 22$ 

Men met each other with erected look, 
The steps were higher that they took, 
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste ; 
And long-inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. 

Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124. 

For truth has such a face and such a mien, 
As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. 1 

The Hind and Pa7ither. Line 33. 

And kind as kings upon their coronation day. 

Ibid. Line 271. 

But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 

Mac Flecknoe. Line 20. 

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. 

Ibid. Line 208. 

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, 
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. 2 

Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758. 

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. 

The Cock and Fox. Line 452. 

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd 
For one fair female, lost him half the kind. 

Theodore and Ho7ioria. 

Three Poets, in three distant ages born, 
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; 

1 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. ii. Line 217. 

2 Perjuriaridet amantum 
Jupiter. 

Tibullus, Lib. iii. El. 7, Line 17. 
This proverb Dryden repeats in Amphitryon, Act\.Sc. 2. 
10* o 



226 Dry den. 

The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, 
The next in majesty, in both the last. 
The force of Nature could no further go ; 
To make a third, she join'd the former two. 1 

Under Mr. Milton's Picture. 
A very merry, dancing, drinking, 
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. 

The Secular Masque. Line 40. 

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. 
Epistle to Congreve. Line 19. 

Be kind to my remains ; and O defend, 
Against your judgment, your departed friend ! 

Ibid. Line 72. 

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, 
From grave to light ; from pleasant to severe. 2 
The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75. 

Since heaven's eternal year is thine. 

Elegy 07i Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15. 

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a 

child. 3 ibid. Line 70. 

Above any Greek or Roman name. 4 

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76. 

He was exhal'd ; his great Creator drew 
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. 5 

On the Death of a very Young Gentleman. 

1 Graecia Maeonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, 
Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. 

Selvaggi, Ad Joannem Miltonum. 

2 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. iv. Line 379. 

3 Cf. Pope, Epitaph on Gay. 

4 Cf. Pope, Satires and Epistles ', Book ii. Ep. I, Line 26. 
* Cf. Young, Night Thoughts, v. Line 600. 



Dry den, 227 

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, 

This universal frame began : 

From harmony to harmony 
Through all the compass of the notes it ran, 
The diapason closing full in Man. 

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line II. 

Happy the man, and happy he alone, 

He who can call to-day his own : 

He who, secure within, can say, 
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. 
Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line 65. 

Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; 
But what has been, has been, and I have had 
my hour. ibid. Li?ie 71. 

I can enjoy her while she 's kind ; 

But when she dances in the wind, 

And shakes the wings, and will not stay, 

I puff the prostitute away. ibid. Line 81. 

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. 

Ibid. Line 87. 
Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate 
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. 

Virgil. ALneid, 1. 

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, 

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 

Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book xv. Line 155. 

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, 
Can draw you to her with a single hair. 1 

Persius. Satire v. Line 246. 

1 Cf. Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto ii. Line 27. 



228 Dry den. 

Look round the habitable world, how few 
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! 

Juvenal. Satire x. 

Thespis, the first professor of our art, 

At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. 

Prologue to Lee^s Sophonisba. 
Errors like straws upon the surface flow ; 
He who would search for pearls must dive below. 

All for Love. Prologue. 
Men are but children of a larger growth. 

Ibid. Activ. Sc. i. 
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion 
to me. The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2. 

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; 
Within that circle none durst walk but he. 

The Tempest. Prologue. 
I am as free as nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began, 
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 

The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. I. 
Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; 
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. 1 

Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. 

What precious drops are those, 
Which silently each other's track pursue, 
Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew ? 
Ibid. Part ii. Act iii. Sc. I. 

1 Quos laeserunt et oderunt. — Seneca, De Ira y Lib. ii. 
cap. xxxiii. 

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quern lasseris. — 
Tacitus, Agricola, 42, 4. 

The offender never pardons. — Herbert, Jacula Pru- 
dentum. 



Dry den, 229 

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. 

Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; 

Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : 

To-morrow 's falser than the former day \ 

Lies worse • and, while it says we shall be blest 

With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. 

Strange cozenage ! none would live past years 

again, 
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; 
And from the dregs of life think to receive 
What the first sprightly running could not give. 
Aureng-zebe. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

All delays are dangerous in war. 1 

Tyrannic Love. Act i. Sc. I. 

Pains of love be sweeter far 
Than all other pleasures are. 

Ibid. Act \\. Sc. 1. 

His hair just grizzled 
As in a green old age. (Edipus. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long ; 
Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. 
Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; 
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : 
Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, 
The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. I. 

1 Delays have dangerous ends. — Shakespeare, King 
Henry VI Part i. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



230 Harvey. 

[Dryden continued. 

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, 
Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. 

CEdipus. Act'w. Sc. I. 
There is a pleasure sure 
In being mad which none but madmen know. 1 
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

This is the porcelain clay of humankind. 2 

Don Sebastian. Acti.Sc.l. 

I have a soul that, like an ample shield, 
Can take in all, and verge enough for more. 3 

Ibid. Act I Sc. I. 

A knock-down argument : 'tis but a word and 

a blow. Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. I. 

The true Amphitryon. ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

The spectacles of books. 

Essay on Dra??iatic Poetry. 



STEPHEN HARVEY. 

And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame 
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame ; 
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, 
While virtuous actions are but born and die. 

Juvenal. Satire ix. 4 

1 Cf. Cowper, p. 361. 

2 Cf. Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv. St. 1 1. 

3 Cf. Gray, p. 331. 

4 From Anderson's British Poets, Vol. xii./. 697. 



B tiny an. — Baxter. • 231 



JOHN BUNYAN. 1628 -1 

And so I penned 
It down, until at last it came to be, 
For length and breadth, the bigness which you 

See. Apology for His Book. 

Some said, "John, print it," others said, " Not so," 
Some said, " It might do good," others said, " No." 

Ibid. 
The name of the slough was Despond. 

Pilgrim'* s Progress. Part i. 

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because 
the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. 

Ibid. Part I. 

Some things are of that nature as to make 
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. 
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of 
the Pilgrim. 

He that is down needs fear no fall. 1 

Ibid. Part ii. 



RICHARD BAXTER. 1615-1691. 

I preached as never sure to preach again, 
And as a dying man to dying men. 

Love breathing Thanks and Praise. 

1 He that is down can fall no lower. — Butler, Hudi- 
bras, Part i. Ca?ito iii. Line 877. 



232 U Estrange. — Tillotson. 



EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633 -1684. 

Remember Milo's end, 
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. 

Essay on Translated Verse. Line 87. 

Choose an author as you choose a friend. 

Ibid. Li7ie 96. 
Immodest words admit of no defence, 
For want of decency is want of sense. 

Ibid. Line 113. 

The multitude is always in the wrong. 

Ibid. Line 184. 
My God, my Father, and my Friend, 
Do not forsake me at my end. 

Translation of Dies Ircz. 



ROGER L'ESTRANGE. 1616-1740. 

Though this may be play to you, 
'T is death to us. 

Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398. 



JOHN TILLOTSON. 1630- 1694. 

If God were not a necessary Being of himself, 
he might almost seem to be made for the use and 
benefit of men. 1 Sermon 93, 17 12. 



1 Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudroit l'inventer. — Vol- 
taire, A VAuteur du livre des trois imfiosteurs, Epit. cxi. 



Henry. — Powell. — Rumbold. 233 



MATTHEW HENRY. 1662-1714. 

To their own second and sober thoughts. 1 

Exposition, Job vi. 29. (London, 1710.] 



SIR JOHN POWELL. 1713. 

Let us consider the reason of the case. For 
nothing is law that is not reason. 2 

Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 911. 



RICHARD RUMBOLD. 1685. 

I never could believe that Providence had 

sent a few men into the world, ready booted and 

spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and 

bridled to be ridden. 

When on the Scaffold (1685). Macaulay, Hist, of Engla?id. 

1 I consider biennial elections as a security that the 
sober, second thought of the people shall be law. — 
Fisher Ames, Speech on Biennial Elections, 1788. 

2 Reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law 
itself is nothing else but reason .... The law, which is 
perfection of reason. — Coke, Institute, Book i. Fol. 976. 



234 Rochester. — Sedley. 



EARL OF ROCHESTER. 1647 -1680. 

Angels listen when she speaks : 

She '3 my delight, all mankind's wonder ; 

But my jealous heart would break, 

Should we live one day asunder. Song. 

Here lies our sovereign lord the king, 
Whose word no man relies on ; 

He never says a foolish thing, 
Nor ever does a wise one. 
Written on the Bedchaniber Door of Charles II 

And ever since the conquest have been fools. 
Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Cowttry. 

For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, 
The best good man with the worst-natured muse. 

An Allusion to Satire x. Horace. Book i. 

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. 

On the King. 



SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. 1639- 1701. 

When change itself can give no more, 

'T is easy to be true. 

Reasons for Constancy. 



Sheffield. — A Idrich. 235 

SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM- 
SHIRE. 1649 -1720. 

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

Essay on Poetry. 
There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw 
A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. 

Ibid. 
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 
For all books else appear so mean, so poor ; 
Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, 
And Homer will be all the books you need. 

Ibid. 



HENRY ALDRICH. 1647-1710. 

If on my theme I rightly think, 
There are five reasons why men drink : 
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, 
Or lest I should be by and by, 
Or any other reason why. 1 

Biog. Britannica. Vol. i. p. 131. 

1 These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram 
(erroneously ascribed to Aldrich in the Biog. Brit.) which 
Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Pere Sirmond. 

Si bene commemini, causae sunt quinque bibendi ; 

Hospitis adventus ; praesens sitis atque futura ; 

Et vini bonitas, et quaelibet altera causa. 

Menagiana, Vol. \. p. 172. 



236 Otway. — Fletcher of Saltoun. 

THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. 

O woman ! lovely woman ! nature made thee 
To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. 
Angels are painted fair, to look like you : 
There 's in you all that we believe of heaven ; 
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 

Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life ; 
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee. 1 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 
What mighty ills haye not been done by woman ? 
Who was 't betray'd the Capitol ? A woman ! 
Who lost Mark Antony the world ? A woman ! 
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, 
And laid at last old Troy in ashes ? Woman ! 
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman ! 

The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. 



ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 
l6 53~ I 7 1 ^- 

I knew a very wise man that believed that, if 
a man were permitted to make all the ballads, 
he need not care who should make the laws of a 
nation. 

Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes \ etc. 

1 Cf. Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3. 



Newton. — Lee. 237 

ISAAC NEWTON. 1642 -1727. 

I do not know what I may appear to the 
world, but to myself I seem to have been only 
like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and divert- 
ing myself in now and then finding a smoother 
pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst 
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered 
before me. 1 

Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Ch. 27. 



NATHANIEL LEE. 1655 - 1692. 
Then he will talk — good gods ! how he will talk ! 2 

Alexa?ider the Great. Acti. Sc. 3. 

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug 
of war. ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way. 3 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Man, false man, smiling, destructive man. 

Theodosins. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 Cf. Milton, Paradise Reg., Book iv. Lines 327 - 330. 
2 It would talk, 
Lord ! how it talked ! 
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act : v. Sc. 1. 
3 ' leads the way,' in the stage editions, which contain 
various interpolations, among them 

" See the conquering hero comes, 
Sound the trumpet, beat the drums." 



238 Norris. — Pope, — S out kerne. 



JOHN NORRIS. 1657-1711. 

How fading are the joys we dote upon ! 

Like apparitions seen and gone ; 

But those which soonest take their flight 
Are the most exquisite and strong ; 

Like angels' visits, short and bright, 1 
Mortality 's too weak to bear them long. 

The Parting. 



DR. WALTER POPE. 1630- 1714. 

May I govern my passion with absolute sway, 
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears 
away. The Old Man's Wish. 



THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 1660- 1746. 
Pity 's akin to love. 2 Oroonoka. Act ii. Se. 1. 

1 Cf. Campbell, p. 440. 

2 Vio. I pity you. 

OIL That 's a degree to Love. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. I. 

Of all the paths that lead to woman's love 

Pity *s the straightest. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of Malta, Acti. Sc. I. 



Demits. — Pomfret. 239 



JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734. 

A man who could make so vile a pun would 
not scruple to pick a pocket. 1 

They will not let my play run ; and yet they 
steal my thunder. 2 



JOHN POMFRET. 1667 -1703. 

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, 
And still adore the hand that gives the blow. 8 

Verses to his Friend under Affliction. 

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, 
But most chastises those whom most he likes. 

Ibid. 

1 This on the authority of The Gentleman \r Magazine, 
Vol. li. p. 324. 

2 Our author, for the advantage of this play [Appius 
and Virginia], had invented a new species of thunder, 
which was approved of by the actors, and is the very sort 
that at present is used in the theatre. The tragedy, how- 
ever, was coldly received notwithstanding such assistance, 
and was acted but a short time. Some nights after, Mr. 
Dennis being in the pit, at the representation of Macbeth, 
heard his own thunder made use of; upon which he rose 
in a violent passion, and exclaimed, with an oath, that it 
was his thunder. " See/' said he, " how the rascals use 
me ! They will not let my play run ; and yet they steal 
my thunder." — Biog. Britannica, Vol. v. p. 103. 

3 Bless the hand that gave the blow. 

Dryden, The Spanish Friar, Act ii. Sc. I. 



240 Defoe. — Bentley. — Brown. 



DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-1731. 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there ; * 
And 't will be found, upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

The True- Bom Englishman. Part i. Line I. 
Great families of yesterday we show, 
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows 
-\vho. Ibid. Lin. ult. 



RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662 -1742. 

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever 

written out of reputation but by himself. 

Monk's Life of Bentley. p. 90. 



TOM BROWN. 1663 -1704. 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell ; 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. 2 

1 See Proverbs, p. 612. 

2 A slightly different version is found in Brown's 
Works collected and published after his death. 

Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; 
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. 

Martial, Ep. 1. xxxiii. 
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas ; 
Je n'en saurois dire la cause, 
Je sais seulement une chose ; 
C'est que je ne vous aime pas. 

Bussy, Comte de Babutin, Epistle 33, Book i. 



Prior. 241 

MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. 

Be to her virtues very kind ; 
Be to her faults a little blind. 

An English Padlock. 

Abra was ready ere I call'd her name • 
And, though I call'd another, Abra came. 

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book ii. Line 364. 

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. 1 

Ibid. Book iii. Line 102. 

Who breathes, must suffer, and who thinks, must 

mourn; 
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. 
Ibid. Book iii. Line 240. 

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, 
And often took leave ; but was loth to depart. 
The Thief 'and the Cordelier. 

Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, 
And, oft repeating, they believe 'em. 

Alma. Canto iii. Line 13. 
And thought the nation ne'er would thrive 
Till all the whores were burnt alive. 

Panlo Purganti. 

1 This thought is ascribed to Aristotle by Diogenes 
Laertius, Lib. v. §18. 'EpaT-qOeh rl icrriv iXiris; 'Eyprj- 
yoporos, etVei/, \vvttviov. 

Menage, in his Observations upon Laertius, says that 
Stobaeus {Serm. cix.) ascribes it to Pindar, whilst /Elian 
(Var. Hist. xiii. 29) refers it to Plato : "EXeyev 6 UXdrcov, 
tcls iXntdas iyprjyopoToov avSpdoTTccv ovelpovs eivai. 
II P 



242 Prior. 

Nobles and heralds, by your leave, 

Here lies what once was Matthew Prior ; 

The son of Adam and of Eve : 

Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? 1 

Epitaph on Himself. 

Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song? 

A Better Answer. 

That, if weak women went astray, 
Their stars were more in fault than they. 

Hans CarveL 

The end must justify the means. ibid. 

That air and harmony of shape express, 
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. 2 

Henry and Emma. 

Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim 
At objects in an airy height ; 

The little pleasure of the game 
Is from afar to view the flight. 3 

To the Hon. Charles Montague. 

1 The following epitaph was written long before the 
time of Prior : — 

Johnnie Carnegie lais heer. 

Descendit of Adam and Eve, 
Gif ony con gang hieher, 

Ise willing give him leve. 

2 Cf. Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle \\. Line 43. 
8 But all the pleasure of the game 

Is afar off to view the flight. 

Variations in a copy printed 1692. 



Carey, 243 

Prior continued.] 

From ignorance our comfort flows. 

The only wretched are the wise. 1 ibid. 

They never taste who always drink ; 
They always talk who never think. 

Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana. 



HENRY CAREY. 1663 -1743. 

God save our gracious king, 
Long live our noble king, 

God save the king. God save the King. 

Aldeborontiphoscophornio ! 

Where left you Chrononhotonthologos ? 

Chr 011011. Acti. Sc. I. 

His cogitative faculties immers'd 

In cogibundity of cogitation, ibid. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Let the singing singers 
With vocal voices, most vociferous, 
In sweet vociferation, out-vociferize 
Ev'n sound itself. Ibid. Acti. Sc. 1. 

To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, 
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded. 

Ibid. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, 
And let the man who calleth be the caller ; 
And in his calling let him nothing call, 
But Coach ! Coach ! Coach ! O for a coach, ye 
gods ! Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 Cf. Gray, Eton College, p. 329. 



244 Garth. 

[Carey continued. 

Genteel in personage, 
Conduct, and equipage ; 
Noble by heritage, 
Generous and free. 

The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2. 

What a monstrous tail our cat has got ! 

The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. I. 

Of all the girls that are so smart, 
There 's none like pretty Sally. 1 

Sally in our Alley. 

Of all the days that 's in the week 

I dearly love but one day, 
And that 's the day that comes betwixt 

A Saturday and Monday. ibid. 



SAMUEL GARTH. 1670- 1719. 

To die is landing on some silent shore, 
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar ; 
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er. 
The Dispensary? 1 Canto iii. Line 225. 

1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen, 
There 's none so fine as Nelly. 

Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet. 

2 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy, 
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. 

Christopher Codrington, On Garth's Dispensary. 



Swift. 245 



JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745. 

I 've often wished that I had clear, 
For life, six hundred pounds a year, 
A handsome house to lodge a friend, 
A river at my garden's end. 

Imitation of Horace. Book ii. Sat. 6. 

So geographers, in Afric maps, 1 
With savage pictures fill their gaps, 
And o'er unhabitable downs 
Place elephants for want of towns. 

Poetry \ a Rhapsody. 

W T here Young must torture his invention 
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. 

Ibid. 

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature 
Lives in a state of war by nature. ibid. 

So, naturalists observe, a flea 

Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; 

And these have smaller still to bite 'em ; 

And so proceed ad infinitum. ibid. 

Libertas et natale solum \ 

Fine words ! I wonder where you stole 'em. 

Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach. 

1 As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps 
parts of the world which they do not know about, adding 
notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies 
nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unap- 
proachable bogs. — Plutarch, Theseus. 



246 Swift. 

A college joke to cure the dumps. 

Cassimus and Peter. 

'T is an old maxim in the schools, 
That flattery 's the food of fools ; 
Yet now and then your men of wit 
Will condescend to take a bit. 

Cadenus and Vanessa. 

The two noblest things, which are sweetness 
and light. Battle of the Books. 

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever 
could make two ears of corn, or two blades of 
grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only 
one grew before, would deserve better of man- 
kind, and do more essential service to his coun- 
try, than the whole race of politicians put together. 

Gulliver's Travels. Partn. Ch. vi. Voyage to Brobdingnag. 

He had been eight years upon a project for 
extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which 
were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and 
let out to warm the air in raw inclement sum- 
mers. Ibid. Part iii. Ch. v. Voyage to Laputa. 

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a 
whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of 
amusement, to divert him from laying violent 

hands upon the ship. 1 Tale of a Tub, Preface. 

1 In Sebastian Minister's Cosmography, there is a cut 
of a ship, to which a whale was coming too close for her 
safety, and of the sailors throwing a tub to the whale evi- 
dently to play with. This practice is also mentioned in 
an old prose translation of the Ship of Fools. — Sir James 
Mackintosh, Appendix to the Life of Sir Thomas More. 



Le Sage. 247 

Swift continued.] 

Bread is the staff of life. Tale of a Tub. 

The reason why so few marriages are happy 
is because young ladies spend their time in mak- 
ing nets, not in making cages. 

Thoughts oil Various Subjects. 

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for 
being eminent. Ibid. 

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ibid. 

Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in 

a hole. Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729. 

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. 

Scott's Life of Swift? 



ALAIN RENE LE SAGE. 1668- 1747. 
I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little 

more taste. Gil Bias. Book vii. Ch. 4. 

1 When the poem of " Cadenus and Vanessa," was 
the general topic of conversation some one said, " Surely 
that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman, that 
could inspire the Dean to write so finely upon her." 
Mrs. Johnson smiled and- answered, that " she thought 
that point not quite so clear, for it was well known the 
Dean could write finely upon a broomstick." — Johnson's 
Life of Swift. 



248 Cibber. 



COLLEY CIBBER. 1671-1757. 

So mourned the dame of Ephesus her love ; 
And thus the soldier, armed with resolution, 
Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer. 

Richard III. Altered. Actii.Sc.l. 

Now by St. Paul the work goes bravely on. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome 
Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

I 've lately had two spiders 

Crawling upon my startled hopes. 

Now tho' thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from 

me, 
Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes ; 
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Off with his head ! so much for Buckingham ! 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay 
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour. 

Act v. St. 3. 

With clink of hammers 1 closing rivets up. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 With busy hammers. — Shakespeare, Henry V., Act 
iv. Chorus. 



Centlivre. — Steele. 249 

Cibber continued.] 

Perish that thought ! No, never be it said 
That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard. 
Hence, babbling dreams ; you threaten here in 

vain ; 
Conscience, avaunt, Richard 's himself again ! 
Hark ! the shrill trumpet sounds, to horse, away, 
My soul 's in arms, and eager for the fray. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

A weak invention of the enemy. 1 

Act v. Sc 3. 



SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE. 1667 -1723. 

The real Simon Pure. 

A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Act v. Sc. I. 



SIR RICHARD STEELE. 1671-1729. 

(Lady Elizabeth Hastings. ) Though her mien 
carries much more invitation than command, to 
behold her is an immediate check to loose be- 
havior ; to love her was a liberal education. 2 

The Tatler. A T o. 49. 

1 A thing devised by the enemy. — Shakespeare, Rich- 
ard III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2 Leigh Hunt incorrectly ascribes this expression to 
Congreve. 

II* 



250 Addison. 



JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. 

C ATO. 

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, 
And heavily in clouds brings on the day, 
The great, the important day, big with the fate 
Of Cato, and of Rome. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Thy steady temper, Portius, 
Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, 
In the calm lights of mild philosophy. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
'T is not in mortals to command success, 
But we '11 do more, Sempronius ; we '11 deserve 
it. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
'T is pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul ; 
I think the Romans call it stoicism. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 

Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget 
The pale, unripened beauties of the north. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, 
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. 
The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. 

Act\. Sc. 4. 
My voice is still for war. 
Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate 
SVhich of the two to choose, slavery or death ? 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 



Addison, 251 

Cato continued.] 

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty 
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 

The woman that deliberates is lost. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

"When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 

The post of honour is a private station. 

Act iv. Sc 4. 
It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! — 
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality ? 
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 
Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul 
Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 
'T is the divinity that stirs within us ; 
'T is heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 
And intimates eternity to man. 
Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! 

Actv. Sc. 1. 
I 'm weary of conjectures, — this must end 'em. 
Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, 
My bane and antidote, are both before me : 
This in a moment brings me to an end ; 
But this informs me I shall never die. 
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, 
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, 
Unhurt amidst the war of elements, 
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 

Actv. Sc. 1. 



252 Addison. 

[Cato continued. 

From hence, let fierce contending nations know 
What dire effects from civil discord flow. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

Unbounded courage and compassion joined, 
Tempering each other in the victor's mind, 
Alternately proclaim him good and great, 
And make the hero and the man complete. 

The Campaign. Line 219. 

And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 1 

Ibid. Line 291. 

And those that paint them truest praise them 
most. 2 ibid. Line nit. 

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, 
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, 
Poetic fields encompass me around. 
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. 3 

A Letter from Italy. 

The spacious firmament on high, 

With all the blue ethereal sky, 

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 

Their great Original proclaim. Ode. 

Soon as the evening shades prevail, 
The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 

1 This line is frequently ascribed to Pope, as it is found 
in the Dunciad, Book iii. Line 261. 

2 Cf. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, Lin. ult. 

3 Malone states that this was the first time the phrase 
" classic ground," since so common, was ever used. 



Walpole. — Pit Hips. 253 

Addison continued.] 

And nightly to the listening earth 

Repeats the story of her birth ■ 

While all the stars that round her burn, 

And all the planets in their turn, 

Confirm the tidings as they roll, 

And spread the truth from pole to pole. Ibid. 

For ever singing, as they shine, 

The hand that made us is divine. ibid. 



SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 1676 -1745. 

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to 
the interested views of themselves or their rela- 
tives the declarations of pretended patriots, of 
whom he said, All those men have their price. 1 
From Coxes Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369. 

Anything but history, for history must be false. 

Walpoliana. A T o. 141. 

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively 
sense of future favours. 2 



AMBROSE PHILIPS. 1671-1749. 
Studious of ease and fond of humble things. 

Fro77i Holland to a F?'iend in England. 

1 The political axiom, All men have their price, is com- 
monly ascribed to Walpole. 

2 Hazlitt, in his Wit and Hionour, says, " This is Wal- 
pole's phrase." 



254 Watts. 

ISAAC WATTS. 1674- 1748. 
DIVINE SONGS. 

Whene'er I take my walks abroad, 

How many poor I see ! 
What shall I render to my God 

For all his gifts to me ? Song iv. 

A flower, when offered in the bud, 

Is no vain sacrifice. Songxil 

And he that does one fault at first, 
And lies to hide it, makes it two. 1 

Song xv. 

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 
For God hath made them so ; 

Let bears and lions growl and fight, 
For 't is their nature too. Songxvi. 

Your little hands were never made 

To tear each other's eyes. ibid. 

How doth the little busy bee 

Improve each shining hour, 
And gather honey all the day, 

From every opening flower ! Song xx. 

For Satan finds some mischief still 

For idle hands to do. ibid. 

1 Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; 
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. 
Herbert, The Church Porch. 



Watts. 255 

To God the Father, God the Son, 
And God the Spirit, three in one ; 

Be honour, praise, and glory given, 
By all on earth, and all in heaven. 

Glory to the Father and the Son. 

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber ! 

Holy angels guard thy bed ! 
Heavenly blessings without number 

Gently falling on thy head. 

A Cradle Hymn. 

'T is the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him com- 
plain, 

" You have waked me too soon, I must slumber 
again." The Sluggard. 

Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound. 

A Funeral Thought. 

Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings 
Should keep in tune so long. 

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19. 

Were I so tall to reach the pole, 
Or grasp the ocean with my span, 
I must be measur'd by my soul : 
The mind 's the standard of the man. 1 

Horce Lyrica. Book ii. False Greatness. 

1 I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which 
is the proper judge of the man. — Seneca, On a Happy 
Life, Ch. 1. (L'Estrange's Abstract.) 



256 Congreve. 



WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1670- 1729. 

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 

The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. I. 

By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 

Ibid. Act\. Sc. 1. 
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 8. 

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, 
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 12. 

If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see 
That heart which others bleed for bleed for me. 

The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12. 

Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of 
thee, thou liar of the first magnitude. 

Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those 

days. The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; 
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. 1 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 2 

Letter to Cobham. 

1 Cf. Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Sc. 2 ; 
Quarles, Enchiridion, Canto 4, xl. 

2 Cf. Young, A T ight Thoughts, i. Line I. 



Rowe. — Philips. — Berkeley. 257 



NICHOLAS ROWE. 1673- 1718. 

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 1 

The Fair Penitent. Prologue. 

Is she not more than painting can express, 
Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? 

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario ? 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. I. 



JOHN PHILIPS. 1676- 1708. 

My galligaskins, that have long withstood 
The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, 
By time subdued, (what will not time subdue !) 
A horrid chasm disclosed. 

The Splendid Shilling. Lijie 121. 



BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684- 1753. 

Westward the course of empire takes its way : 2 

The four first acts already past, 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; 

Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. 

1 Cf. Young, The Love of Fame \ Satire i. Line 238. 

2 Westward the star of empire takes its way. 

Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States. 

Q 



258 Bolingbroke. — Farquhar. 



HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOL- 
INGBROKE. 1678- 1751. 

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius 
of Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philos- 
ophy teaching by examples. 1 

On the Study a,7id Use of History. Letter 2. 



GEORGE FARQUHAR. 1678- 1707. 

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed 
of honour? 

Kite. Oh ! a mighty large bed ! bigger by half 
than the great bed at Ware : ten thousand peo- 
ple may lie in it together, and never feel one 
another. The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. I. 

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed 
consumedly. 

The Beaux 1 Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. I. 

'T was for the good of my country that I should 
be abroad. 2 ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Necessity, the mother of invention. 

The Twin Rivals. Act \. 

1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhet. xi. 2 (/. 398, 
R.), says : — IlatSeia cipa carlv f) evrev^ts raw rjScov ' 
tovto kcll QovKvftidrjs €olk€ Aeyety, 7T€p\ IcrTOpias \eya>v • 
otl kcl\ IvTopia (fiiXoaocpia iarlu ck 7rapa6ety/xdrcoi/, 
quoting Thucydides, I. 22. 

2 Cf. Barrington, p. 391. 



ParnelL — Brereton. 259 



THOMAS PARNELL. 1679-1717. 

Still an angel appear to each lover beside, 
But still be a woman to you. 

When thy beauty appears. 

Remote from man, with God he passed the days, 
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 

The Hermit. Line 5. 

We call it only pretty Fanny's way. 

An Elegy to a7i Old Beauty. 

Let those love now who never lov'd before, 
Let those who always loved now love the more. 

Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris?- 



JANE BRERETON. 1685 -1740. 

The picture, placed the busts between, 
Adds to the thought much strength ; 
Wisdom and Wit are little seen, 
But Folly 's at full length. 
On Beau Nash's Picture at full lengthy between the Busts 
of Sir Isaac Newto7i and Mr. Pope. 2 

1 Written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some as- 
cribed to Catullus : — 

Cras amet qui numquam amavit ; 
Quique amavit, cras amet. 

2 From Dyce's Specimens of British Poetesses. This 
epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield ; see Camp- 
bell's Specimens, Note, p. 521. 



260 Hill. — Tuke. 

AARON HILL. 1685-1750. 

First, then, a woman will, or won 't, depend on 't ; 
If she will do % she will ; and there 's an end on't 
But if she won 't, since safe and sound your trust is, 
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice. 1 

Epilogue to Zara. 

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 
And it stings you for your pains ; 

Grasp it like a man of mettle, 
And it soft as silk remains. 

Verses written on a Window in Scotland. 

'T is the same with common natures : 

Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; 
But be rough as nutmeg-graters, 

And the rogues obey you well. Ibid, 



SIR SAMUEL TUKE. 1673. 

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill 
To turn the current of a woman's will. 

Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 The following lines are copied from the pillar erected 
on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury: — 
Examiner, May 31, 1829. 

Where is the man who has the power and skill 

To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? 

For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; 

And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't. 



Young, 261 



b 



EDWARD YOUNG. 1684-1765. 

XIGHT THOUGHTS. 
Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! 

Night i. Line I. 

Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, 
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth 
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. 

Night i. Line 1 8. 

Creation sleeps ! J T is as the gen'ral pulse 
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; 
An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 

Night i. Line 23. 

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, 

But from its loss. Night i. Line 55. 

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. 

Night i. Line 67. 

To waft a feather or to drown a fly. 

Night i. Line 154. 

Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? 

Thy shaft flew thrice : and thrice my peace was 

slain : 
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her 

horn. Night i. Line 212. 

Be wise to-day • ? t is madness to defer. 1 

Night i. Li?ie 390. 

1 Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 

Conffreve, Letter to Cobham. 



262 Young, 

[Night Thoughts continued. 

Procrastination is the thief of time. 

Night i. Line 393. 

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; 
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. 

Night i. Line 417. 

All men think all men mortal but themselves. 

Night i. Line 424. 

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. 

Night ii. Line 24. 

And what its worth, ask death-beds ; they can tell. 

Night ii. Line 51. 

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed : 
Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. 

Night ii. Line 90. 

" I Ve lost a day " — the prince who nobly cried, 
Had been an emperor without his crown. 

Night ii. Line 99. 

Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, 
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. 

Night ii. Line 112. 

The spirit walks of every day deceased. 

Night ii. Line 180. 

Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, 
Hell threatens. Night ii. Line 292. 

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask them w r hat report they bore to heaven. 

Night ii. Line 376. 



Young. 263 

Night Thoughts continued.] 

Thoughts shut up want air, 
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. 

Night ii. Line 466. 

How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! 

Night ii. Line 602. 

The chamber where the good man meets his fate 

Is privileged beyond the common walk 

Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. 

Night ii. Line 633. 

A' death-bed J s a detector of the heart. 

Night ii. Line 641. 

Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; 

They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 1 

Night iii. Li?ie 63. 

Beautiful as sweet ! 
And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! 
And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! 

Night iii. Line 81. 

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay \ 
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ; 
Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. 

Night iii. Line 104. 

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself 
That hideous sight, a naked human heart. 

Night iii. Line 226. 

1 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, — 
So fast they follow. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7. 
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 

Herrick, Hesperides, Sorrows Succeed. 



264 Young. 

[Night Thoughts continued. 

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, 
The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. 

Night iv. Line 10. 

Man makes a death which nature never made. 

Night iv. Line 15. 

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. 

Night iv. Line 71. 

Man wants but little, nor that little long. 1 

Night iv. Line 118. 

A God all mercy is a God unjust. 

Night iv. Line 233. 

'T is impious in a good man to be sad. 

Night iv. Li7ie 676. 

A Christian is the highest style of man. 2 

Night iv. Line 788. 

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 

Night iv. Line 843. 

By night an atheist half believes a God. 

Night v. Line IJJ. 

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, 
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. 3 

Night v. Line 600. 

1 Cf. Goldsmith, p. 348. 

2 A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. 

Hare, Guesses at Truth. 
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Ft. i. L. 645. 
8 He was exhal'd ; his great Creator drew 
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. 
Dryden, On the Death of a very Young Gentleman. 



Young. 265 

Night Thoughts continued.] 

We see time's furrows on another's brow, 
And death intrench'd, preparing his assault ; 
How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 

Night v. Line 627. 

Like our shadows, 
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. 1 

Night v. Line 661. 

While man is growing, life is in decrease ; 
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. 2 

Night v. Line*] i']. 

That life is long which answers life's great end. 

Nigh t v . L ine 7 73 . 

The man of wisdom is the man of years. 

Night v. Line 7 7 5. 

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 

Night v. Line low. 

Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on 

Alps; 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself: 
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; 
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. 

Night vi. Line 309. 

And all may do what has by man been done. 

A T ight vi. Line 606. 

1 Behold him setting in his western skies, 
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. 
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Line 268. 
2 Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands 
in the grave. — Bishop Hall, Epistles, Dec. iii. Epist. ii. 
12 



266 Young. 

[Night Thoughts continued. 

The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 

Night vii. Line 496. 
Prayer ardent opens heaven. 

Night viii. Line 72 1 . 

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. 

Night viii. Line 793. 

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. 

Night viii. Line 1045. 

Final Ruin fiercely drives 
Her ploughshare o'er creation. 1 

Night ix. Line 167. 

'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand : 
Scripture authentic ! uncorrupt by man. 

Night ix. Line 644. 

An undevout astronomer is mad. 

Night ix. Li7ie 771. 

The course of nature is the art of God. 2 

Night ix. Line 1267. 



LOVE OF FAME. 

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, 
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. 

Satire i. Line 51. 

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, 
And think they grow immortal as they quote. 

Satire i. Line 89. 

1 Cf. Burns, p. 386. 

2 In brief, all things are artificial ; for Nature is the art 
of God. — Sir Thomas Browne, Relig. Med., Ft. i. Sect. xvi. 



Young. 267 

Love of Fame continued.] 

None think the great unhappy, but the great. 1 

Satire i. Line 238. 

Where nature's end of language is declined, 
And men talk only to conceal the mind. 2 

Satire ii. Line 207. 

Be wise with speed ; 
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 

Satire ii. Line 282. 
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the 

year, 
And trifles life. Satire vi. Line 208. 

One to destroy is murder by the law ; 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; 
To murder thousands takes a specious name, 
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. 

Satire vii. Line 55. 

How commentators each dark passage shun, 
And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 3 

Satire vii. Line 97. 

1 As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 

Rowe, The Fair Penitent, Prologue. 

2 The germ of this thought is found in Jeremy Taylor : 
Lloyd, South, Butler, Young, and Goldsmith have repeat- 
ed it after him ; see p. 594. 

3 But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of 
love is to set a candle in the sun. — Burton, Anatomy of 
Melancholy, Pt. iii. Sect. 2. Mem. 1. Subs. 2. 

I forbear to light a candle to the sun. — Selclen, Preface 
to Mare Clausnm, ed. 1635. 

To match the candle with the sun. — Surrey, A Praise 
of His Love. 



268 Booth. 

[Young continued. 

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, 
And oftener changed their principles than shirt. 
Epistle to Mr. Pope. Line 277. 

Accept a miracle, instead of wit, — 

See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. 

Lines Written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord 
Chesterfield! 

Time elaborately thrown away. 

The Last Day. Book i. 

There buds the promise of celestial worth. 

Ibid. Book iii. 

In records that defy the tooth of time. 

The Statesman 's Creed. 

Great let me call him, for he conquered me. 

The Revenge. Acti. Sc. 1. 

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, 
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 
With whom revenge is virtue. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. 



BARTON BOOTH. 1681-1733. 

True as the needle to the pole, 

Or as the dial to the sun. 2 Song. 

1 From Mitford's Life of Young. See also Spence's 
Anecdotes, p. 378. 

2 True as the dial to the sun, 
Although it be not shin'd upon. 

Butler, Hudibras, Pt. iii. C. 2, L. 175. 



Pope. 269 

ALEXANDER POPE. 1688- 1744. 

ESSAY ON MAN. 

Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things 
To low ambition, and the pride of kings. 
Let us (since life can little more supply 
Than just to look about us, and to die) 
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 
A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. 

Epistle i. Line I. 

Together let us beat this ample field, 
Try what the open, what the covert yield. 

Epistle i. Line 9. 

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, 
And catch the manners living as they rise ; 
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, 
But vindicate the w T ays of God to man. 1 

Epistle i. Line 13. 

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. 

Epistle i. Line 77. 

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, 
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 

Epistle i. Line 83. 

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, 
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, 
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, 
And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 

Epistle i. Line Sj. 

1 And justify the ways of God to men. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book. i. Line 26. 



270 Pope. 

[Essay on Man continued. 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast : 
Man never is, but always to be blest. 
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, 
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 
Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind 
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 

Epistle i. Line 95. 

Far as the solar walk or milky way. 

Epistle i. Line 102. 

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 
His faithful dog shall bear him company. 

Epistle i. Line in. 

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; 
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. 
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, 
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 

Epistle i. Line 123. 

Die of a rose in aromatic pain. 

Epistle i. Line 200. 

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! 
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 1 

Epistle i. Line 217. 

1 Much like a subtle spider which doth sit, 
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide ; 
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, 
She feels it instantly on every side. 
Sir John Davies (1570- 1626), The Immortality of the Soul. 
Our souls sit close and silently within, 
And their own web from their own entrails spin ; 
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, 
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. 

Dryden, Mariage a la Mode, Act ii. Sc. 1. 



Pope. 271 

Essay on Man continued.] 

What thin partitions sense from thought divide. 1 

Epistle i. Line 226. 

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 

Epistle i. Line 267. 

Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, 

Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. 

Epistle i. Line 272. 

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, 
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : 
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; 
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all ! 

Epistle i. Line 277. 
All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; 
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 
All discord, harmony not understood ; 
All partial evil, universal good ; 
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, 
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 2 

Epistle i. Line 289. 

1 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 

Dryden, Ante, p. 221. 
"NuMum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia 
fuit." Seneca, De Tranquil lit ate Animi, xvii. 10, quotes 
this from Aristotle, who gives as one of his Problemata 
(xxx. 1), Aia tl 7raVre? octol trepiTTol yey ovacriv civdpes 
r] Kara (fii\o(ro(f)iav rj ttoXitlktjv t) irol-qcnv t) re^vcis <pai~ 
vovrai /xeXay^oXtKot ovres. 

2 Whatever is, is in its causes just. 

Dryden, GLdipus, Act iii. Sc. I. 



272 Pope. 

[Essay on Man continued. 

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; 
The proper study of mankind is man. 1 

Epistle ii. Line i. 

Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd ; 
Still by himself abused or disabused ; 
Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; 
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; 
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! 2 

Epistle ii. Line 13. 

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, 
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. 

Epistle ii. Line 63. 

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, 
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. 

Epistle ii. Line 107. 

And hence one master-passion in the breast, 
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 

Epistle ii. Line 131. 

The young disease, that must subdue at length, 
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his 
Strength. Epistle ii. Line 135. 

1 La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est 
l'homme. — Charron, De la Sagesse, Lib. i. Ch. i. 

2 Quelle chimere est-ce done que l'homme ! quelle nou- 
veaute, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction ! Juge de 
toutes choses, imbecile ver de terre, depositaire du vrai, 
amas d'incertitude, gloire et rebut de l'univers. — Pascal, 
Systhnes des Philosophes^ xxv. 



Pope. 273 

Essay on Man continued.] 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 1 
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; 
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

Epistle ii. Line 217. 
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, 

Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree. 

Epistle ii. Line 231. 
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : 
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, 
A little louder, but as empty quite ; 
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age, 
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, 
Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. 

Epistle ii. Line 275. 

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, 
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 

Epistle iii. Line 177. 
Th' enormous faith of many made for one. 

Epistle iii. Line 242. 

For forms of government let fools contest ; 
Whate'er is best administer'd is best : 
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 2 

Epistle iii. Line 303. 

1 For truth has such a face and such a mien, 
As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. 

Dryden, The Hind and Panther, Li}te 33. 

2 His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. 

Cowley, On the Death of Crashaw. 
12* R 



274 Pope. 

[Essay on Man continued. 

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, 
But all mankind's concern is charity. 

Epistle iii. Line 307. 
O happiness ! our being's end and aim ! 
Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : 
That something still which prompts th' eternal 

sigh, 
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 

Epistle iv. Line I. 
Order is Heaven's first law. Epistle iv. Line 49. 

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words — health, peace, and compe- 
tence. Epistle iv. Line 79. 

The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. 

Epistle iv. Line 168. 
Honour and shame from no condition rise ; 
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. 

Epistle iv. Line 193. 
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 
The rest is all but leather or prunello. 

Epistle iv. Line 203. 
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 
Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 

Epistle iv. Line 215. 
A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod ; 
An honest man 's the noblest work of God. 1 

Epistle iv. Line 247. 
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : 
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs 

1 Man is his own star, and that soul that can 
Be honest is the only perfect man. 

Fletcher, Upon an Honest Marts Fortune. 



Pope. 275 

Essay on Man continued.] 

Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas : 
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels 
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. 

Epistle iv. Line 254. 
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, 
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind ! 
Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name, 1 
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame ! 2 

Epistle iv. Line 281. 
Know then this truth (enough for man to know), 
" Virtue alone is happiness below." 

Epistle iv. Line 309. 
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
But looks through nature up to nature's God. 3 

Epistle iv. Line 331. 
Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 4 

Epistle iv. Line 379. 

1 Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. 

Cowley, Trans. Georgics, Book ii. Line 458. 

2 May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, 
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame. 

Savage, Character of Foster. 

3 You will find that it is the modest, not the presumptu- 
ous inquirer, who makes a real and safe progress in the 
discovery of divine truths. One follows nature and na- 
ture's God — that is, he follows God in his works and in 
his word. — Bolingbroke, A Letter to Mr. Pope. 

4 Happy who in his verse can gently steer, 
From grave to light : from pleasant to severe. 

Dry den, The Art of Poetry, C. i. Line 75. 
Heureux qui, dans ses vers, salt d'une voix legere 
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe. 

Boileau, VArt Poetiqice, Chant I er . 



2y6 Pope. 

[Essay on Man continued. 

Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, 
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale ? 

Epistle iv. Line 385. 

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. 

Epistle iv. Line 390. 

That virtue only makes our bliss below, 
And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

Epistle iv. Line 397. 



MORAL ESSAYS. 

To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for the observer's sake. 

Epistle i. Line II. 

Like following life through creatures you dissect, 
You lose it in the moment you detect. 

Epistle i. Line 29. 

Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. 

Epistle i. Line 40. 

'T is from high life high characters are drawn ; 
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. 

Epistle i. Line 135. 

'T is education forms the common mind : 
Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. 

Epistle i. Line 149. 

Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times. 1 

Epistle i. Line 172. 

1 Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. 

Borbonius. 



Pope. 277 

Moral Essays continued.] 

Odious ! in woollen ! ? t would a saint provoke, 
Were the last words that poor Xarcissa spoke. 

Epistle i. Line 246. 

And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath 
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. 

Epistle i. Line 262. 

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it. 
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

Epistle ii. Line 15. 

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 

Epistle ii. Line 19. 

Fine by defect, and delicately weak. 1 

Epistle ii. Line 43. 

With too much quickness ever to be taught ; 
With too much thinking to have common thought. 

Epistle ii. Line 97. 

To heirs unknown descends tlv unguarded store, 
Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor. 

Epistle ii. Line 149. 

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, 
Content to dwell in decencies forever. 

Epistle ii. Line 163. 

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take \ 
But every woman is at heart a rake. 

Epistle ii. Line 215. 

1 Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. 

Prior, Henry ci7id E?nma. 



278 Pope. 

[Moral Essays continued. 

See how the world its veterans rewards ! 
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards. 

Epistle ii. Li)ie 243. 

Oh ! bless'd with temper whose unclouded ray 
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. 

Epistle ii. Line 257. 

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. 

Epistle ii. Liite 261. 

And mistress of herself, though china fall. 

Epistle ii. Line 268. 

Womari 's at best a contradiction still. 

Epistle ii. Line 270. 

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me ? 

Epistle iii. Line 1. 

Blest paper-credit ! last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. 

Epistle iii. Line 39. 

But thousands die without or this or that, 
Die, and endow a college or a cat. 

Epistle iii. Line 95. 

The ruling passion, be it what it will, 
The ruling passion conquers reason still. 

Epistle iii. Line 153. 

Extremes in nature equal good produce ; 
Extremes in man concur to general use. 

Epistle iii. Line 161. 



Pope. 279 

Moral Essays continued.] 

Rise, honest muse ! and sing The Man of Ross. 

Epistle iii. Line 250. 

Ye little stars ! hide your diminish'd rays. 1 

Epistle iii. Line 282. 

Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name. 

Epistle iii. Line 285. 

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, 
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. 

Epistle iii. Line 339. 
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 

Epistle iv. Line 43. 

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, 
Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 2 

Epistle iv. Line 149. 

Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, 
In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 
Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 
Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend. 

Epistle v. Line 67. 

1 At whose sight all the stars 
Hide their diminished heads. 

Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 34. 

2 In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at 
Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the 
conclusion of his sermon : — "In short, if you don't live 
up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves 
to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive 
your reward in a certain place which 't is not good man- 
ners to mention here." — Tom Brown, Laconics. 



280 Pope. 



AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 

T is with our judgments as our watches, none 
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 1 

Part i. Line 9. 

One science only will one genius fit ; 
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. 

Part i. Line 60. 

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, 
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 

Part i. Line 154. 

Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 

Part ii. Line 4. 

A little learning is a dangerous thing ; 
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 2 

Part ii. Line 15. 

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! 

Part ii. Line 32. 

1 But as when an authentic watch is shown, 
Each man winds up and rectifies his own, 
So in our very judgments, &c. 

Suckling, Epilogue to Aglaura. 
2 A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, 
but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to 
religion. — Bacon, Essays, Of Atheism. 

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery ; but 
depth in that study brings him about again to our religion. 
— Fuller, Holy State, The True Church Antiquary. 



Pope. 281 

Essay on Criticism continued.] 

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is. nor e'er shall be. 1 

Part ii. Line 53. 

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, 

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. 

Part ii. Line 97. 
Words are like leaves ; and w T here they most 

abound, 
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 

Part ii. Line 109. 
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, 
Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. 

Part ii. Line 126. 
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, 
Alike fantastic if too new or old : 
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 

Part ii. Line 133. 

Some to church repair, 
Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 

Part ii. Line 142. 
These equal syllables alone require, 
Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, 
While expletives their feeble aid do join, 
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 

Part ii. Line 144. 

1 "High characters," cries one, and he would see 
Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be. 

Suckling, Epilogue to The Goblin. 
There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw 
A faultless monster, which the world ne'er saw. 

Sheffield, Essay on Poetry. 



282 Pope. 

[Essay on Criticism continued. 

A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length 
along. 1 Part ii. Line 158. 

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, 
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; 
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, 
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers 

flows ; 
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent 

roar. 
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to 

throw, 
The line too labours, and the words move slow ; 
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, 
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along 

the main. Part ii. Line 162. 

For fools admire, but men of sense approve. 

Part ii. Line 191. 

But let a lord once own the happy lines, 
How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! 

Part ii. Line 220. 

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, 
But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 

Part ii. Line 266. 

1 Solvuntur, tardosque trahit sinus ultimus orbes. 

Virgil, Georgics, Lib. iii. 424. 



Pope. 283 

Essay on Criticism continued.] 

To err is human, to forgive divine. 

Part ii. Line 325. 

All seems infected that th' infected spy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye. 

Part ii. Line 358. 
And make each day a critic on the last. 

Part iii. Line 12. 

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, 
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 

Part iii. Line 15. 
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 
With loads of learned lumber in his head. 

Part iii. Line 53. 
Most authors steal their works, or buy ; 
Garth did not write his own Dispensary. 

Part iii. Line 59. 
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 1 

Part iii. Line 66. 

Led by the light of the Maeonian star. 

Part iii. Line 89. 

Content if hence th' unlearn' d their wants may 

view, 
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. 2 

Part Hi. Line 180. 

1 That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. 
Shakespeare, Richard LIL, Act i. Sc. 3. 
2 "Indocti discant et anient meminisse periti." 
This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to 
Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to Pres- 
ident Henault's AbrJgJ Chronologique, and in the preface 
to the third edition of tin's work, Henault acknowledges 
that he had given it as a translation of this couplet. 



284 Pope. 

THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. 

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, 
What mighty contests rise from trivial things. 

Canto i. Line I. 

And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. 

Canto i. Line 134. 

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, 
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. 

Canto ii. Line 7. 

If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you '11 forget them all. 

Canto ii. Line 17. 

Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair. 1 

Canto ii. Li?te 27. 

Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, 
Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes 
tea. Canto iii. Line 7. 

At every word a reputation dies. 

Canto iii. Line 16. 

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. 

Canto iii. Line 21. 

Coffee, which makes the politician wise, 
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. 

Canto iii. Line 117. 

1 She knows her man, and, when you rant and swear, 
Can draw you to her with a single hair. 

Dry den, Per sins •, Satire i. 



Pope. 285 

Rape of the Lock continued.] 

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever 
From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! 

Canto iii. Lint 153. 

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, 

And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. 

Canto iv. Line 123. 

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

Canto v. Lint 34. 



EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHXOT. 

PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. 

Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigu'd. I said ; 
Tie up the knocker, say I 'm sick, I 'm dead. 

Lint 1. 

Fire in each eye. and papers in each hand, 
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. 

Line 5. 

E'en Sunday shines no sabbath day to me. 

Line 12. 

Is there a parson much bemus"d in beer, 
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, 
A clerk foredoom'd his father s soul to cross. 
Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? 

Lint 15. 

Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, 
The world had wanted many an idle song. 

Line 27. 



286 Pope. 

[Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot continued. 

Oblig'd by hunger and request of friends. 

Line 44. 

Fir'd that the house rejects him, "'Sdeath! I '11 

print it, 
And shame the fools." Line 61. 

No creature smarts so little as a fool. Line 84. 

Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain ! 
The creature 's at his dirty work again. 

Line 91. 
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 

Line 127. 

Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

Line 169. 

Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; 
And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, 
It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Line 186. 

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 

Line 197. 

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

Line 201. 



Pope. 287 

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot continued.] 

By flatterers besieg'd, 
And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; 
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, 
And sit attentive to his own applause. 

Line 207. 

Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? 
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? 

Line 213. 

Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, 
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. 

Line 283. 
Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? 
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? 

Line 307. 

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

Zov 315. 

Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 

Line 333. 

That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, 
But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song. 
h Line 340. 

Me, let the tender office long engage 
To rock the cradle of reposing age, 
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of 

death ; 
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, 
And keep awhile one parent from the sky. 

Line 408. 



288 Pope. 



SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND ODES OF HORACE. 

Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. 

Satire i. Book ii. Line 6. 
Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet 
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. 

Satire i. Book ii. Line 69. 

But touch me, and no minister so sore ; 
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time 
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme ; 
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 
And the sad burden of some merry song. 

Satire i. Book ii. Line 76. 

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

Satire i. Book ii. Line 127. 

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 1 
Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159. 

Give me again my hollow tree, 
A crust of bread, and liberty. 

Satire vi. Book ii. Line 220. 

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136. 

To Berkeley every virtue under heaven. 

Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 76. 

When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one. 

Epistle i. Book i. Line 38. 

1 Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. 
The Odyssey, Book xv. Line 84. 



Pope. 289 

Epistles of Horace continued.] 

Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; 
If not, by any means get wealth and place. 1 

Epistle i. Book i. Line 103. 

Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. 2 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26. 
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 108. 
One simile that solitary shines 
In the dry desert of a thousand lines. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line ill. 

Who says in verse what others say in prose. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 202. 
Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march, and energy divine. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 267. 

The last and greatest art, the art to blot. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Li7ie 281. 

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose ; 
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 300. 
The many-headed monster of the pit. 3 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 305. 

1 Get money ; still get money, boy ; 
No matter by what means. 
Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. Sc. 3. 
2 Above any Greek or Roman name. 

Dryden, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. 
3 This many-headed monster. — Massinger, The Roman 
Actor, Act iii. Sc. 2. Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto v. St. 30. 
Many-headed multitude. — Sidney, Arcadia, Book ii. 
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

13 s 



290 Pope, 

[Epistles of Horace continued. 

"Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise." 1 

Epistle i. Book ii. Line 413. 

Years following years steal something every day ; 
At last they steal us from ourselves away. 

Epistle ii. Book ii. Liiu 72. 

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. 

Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85. 

Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke. 
Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 168. 

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride ! 
They had no poet, and they died. 

Ode 9. Book iv. 

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 
God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light 

Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton. 

Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, 
And make two lovers happy. 
Martinns Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry. Ch.il. 

1 This line is from a poem entitled To the Celebrated 
Beauties of the British Conrt. Bell's Fugitive Poetry t 
Vol. iii. /. 118. 

The following epigram is from ^The Grove. London, 
1721. 

When one good line did much my wonder raise, 
In Br — st's works, I stood resolved to praise ; 
And had, but that the modest author cries 
" Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise." 

On a Certain Line of Mr. Br , Author of a Copy 

of Verses called the British Beauties. 



Pope. 291 

THE DUNCIAD. 

O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, 
Dean, Drapier, BickerstafT, or Gulliver ! 
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, 
Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair. 

Book i. Line 21. 

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, 

Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, 

And solid pudding against empty praise. 

Book i. Line 52. 

Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er, 
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. 

Book i. Line 89. 

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, 
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. 

Book i. Line 93. 

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, 
In pleasing memory of all he stole. 

Book i. Line 127. 

How index-learning turns no student pale, 
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 

Book i. Line 279. 

And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. 

Book ii. Line 34. 

Till Peter's keys some christeird Jove adorn, 
And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn. 

Book iii. Line 109. 

All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame. 

Book iii. Line 158. 



292 Pope. 

[The Dunciad continued. 

Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, 
And makes night hideous ; x — answer him, ye owls. 

Book iii. Line 165. 

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 2 

Book iv. Line 90. 

The right divine of kings to govern wrong. 

Book iv. Li7ie 188. 

Stuff the head 
With all such reading as was never read : 
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, 
And write about it, goddess, and about it. 

Book iv. Li?ie 249. 

Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, 
And gather' d every vice on Christian ground. 

Book iv. Line 311. 

Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd. 

Book iv. Line 318. 

Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, 
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess 
The pains and penalties of idleness. 

Book iv. Line 342. 

E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm. 

Book iv. Line 614. 

Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, 

And unawares Morality expires. 

Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine ; 

1 Making night hideous. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 4. 

2 See Cowper, p. 367. 



Pope. 293 

The Dunciad continued.] 

Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! 
Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd \ 
Light dies before thy uncreating word : 
Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; 
And universal darkness buries all. 

Book iv. Liiie 649. 

ELOISA TO ABELARD. 

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, 
Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. 

Line 51. 

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. 

Line 57. 

Curse on all laws but those which love has made. 
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

Line 74. 

And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence. 1 

Line 192. 

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ! 
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 

Line 207. 

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight ; 
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. 2 

Line 273. 

1 She hugged the offender and forgave the offence. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 107. 

2 Priests, tapers, temples, swam before my sight. 

Edmund Smith, Phcedra and Hippolytus K 



294 Pope. 

[Eloisa to Abelard continued. 

See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll ; 
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul. 

Line 323. 

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. 

Line nit. 

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, 
But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd, 
Where order in variety we see, 
And where, though all things differ, all agree. 
Windsor Forest. Line 13. 

A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. 

Ibid. Line 62. 

From old Belerium to the northern main. 

Ibid. Line 3 16. 

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call ; 
She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. 

The Temple of Fa?7ie. Line 513. 

Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; 

grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! 

Ibid. Lin» nit. 

1 am his Highness's dog at Kew \ 
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? 

On the Collar of a Dog. 

There, take, (says Justice,) take ye each a shell \ 
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you ; 
'T was a fat oyster — live in peace — adieu. 1 

Verbati?n from Boileau. 

1 " Tenez voila," dit-elle, " a chacun une ecaille, 
Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais ; 
Messieurs, l'huitre etoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix." 
Epitre, ii. (a M. V Abbe des Roches.) 



Pope. 295 

Father of all ! in every age, 

In every clime adord, 
By saint, by savage, and by sage, 
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. 

The U?iiversal Prayer. Stanza 1 . 

And binding nature fast in fate, 

Left free the human will. Stanza 3. 

And deal damnation round the land. 

Stanza 7. 

Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see ; 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. 1 Stanza 10. 

Vital spark of heavenly flame ! 
Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! 

The Dying Christian to his Soul. 

Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, 

Sister Spirit, come away ! ibid. 

Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 

Ibid. 

Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 

O grave ! where is thy victor} 7 ? 

O death ! where is thy sting? ibid. 

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, 

Thus unlamented let me die ; 
Steal from the world, and not a stone 

Tell where I lie. Ode on Solitude. 

1 Cf. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book iv. C. i. St. 42. 



296 Pope. 

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade 
Invites my steps and points to yonder glade? 1 
To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line I. 

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, 
By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd. 

Ibid. Line 51. 

And bear about the mockery of woe 

To midnight dances, and the public show. 

Ibid. Line 57. 

How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, 

To whom related, or by whom begot ; 

A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 

'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! 

Ibid. Line 71. 

Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, 
Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue. 

Epist. to Robert, Earl of Oxford. 

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, 
Or gave his father grief but when he died. 

Epitaph on the Hon. S. Har court. 

The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. 

Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet. 

Of manners gentle, of affections mild \ 

In wit a man, simplicity a child. 2 

Epitaph on Gay. 

1 What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, 
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew ? 

Ben Jonson, Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet. 

2 Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 

Dry den, Elegy 071 Mrs. Killegrew. 



Pope. 297 

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, 
And greatly falling with a falling state. 
While Cato gives his little senate laws, 
What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? 

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato. 

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole 
Can never be a mouse of any soul. 1 

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298. 

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning 

lies, 
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 

Ibid. Line 369. 

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; 
Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. 2 

Epigram. 
Party is the madness of many for the gain of 

H, lew. Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

I never knew any man in my life who could 
not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a 
Christian. ibid. 

1 I hold a mouse's hert not worth a leek, 
That hath but oon hole to sterte to. 
Chaucer, The Prologue of The Wyfe of Bathe, V. 572. 

2 Cf. Cowper, p. 367. 

3 From Roscoe's edition of Pope, Vol. v. p. 376 ; origi- 
nally printed in Motte's Miscellanies, 1727. In the edition 
of 1736, Pope says, " I must own that the prose part (The 
Thoughts on Various Subjects), at the end of the second 
volume, was wholly mine. January, 1734." 

13* J 



298 Pope, 



ILIAD. 

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring 
Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! 

Book i. Line I. 

The distant Trojans never injured me. 

Book i. Line 200. 

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod ; 
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. 

Book i. Line 684. 

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. 

Book iii. Line 208. 

Not two strong men the enormous weight could 

raise ; 
Such men as live in these degenerate days. 

Book v. LJne 371. 

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, 
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : 
Another race the following spring supplies \ 
They fall successive, and successive rise. 

Book vi. Line 181. 

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, 
My heart detests him as the gates of hell. 

Book ix. Line 412. 

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, 
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. 

Book ix. Line 725. 



Pope. 299 

ODYSSEY. 

Few sons attain the praise 
Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. 

Book ii. Line 315. 

Far from gay cities and the ways of men. 

Book xiv. Line 410. 

Who love, too much, hate in the like extreme. 

Book xv. Line 79. 

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest, 
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. 1 

Book xv. Line S^. 
Whatever day 
Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. 

Book xvii. Line 392. 

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow 
For others' good, and melt at others' woe. 

Book xviii. Line 279. 

This is the Jew 

That Shakespeare drew. 2 

1 Cf. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 160, p. 288. 

2 On the 14th of February, 174.1, Macklin established his 
fame as an actor, in the character of Shylock, in the " Mer- 
chant of Venice." .... Macklin's performance of this 
character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit, that 
he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed, 

"This is the Jew 
That Shakespeare drew." 
It has been said that this gentleman was Mr Pope, and 
that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against 
Lord Lansdowne. — Biog. Dram. VoL i. Ft. ii. p. 469. 



300 Tick ell. — Sew ell. 



THOMAS TICKELL. 1686 -1740. 

Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; 
And saints who taught, and led the way to Heaven. 
On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 41. 

Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd 
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. 

Ibid. Line 45. 

There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 1 

Ibid. Line 81. 

The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid. 

To a Lady ; with a Present of Flowers. 

I hear a voice you cannot hear, 
Which says I must not stay, 

I see a hand you cannot see, 
Which beckons me away. 

Colin and Lucy. 



DR. GEORGE SEWELL. 1726. 

When all the blandishments of life are gone, 
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. 

The Suicide. 

1 Cf. Porteus, Death, Line 318. 

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years 
how to live ; and I will show you in a very short time 
how to die. — Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903. 



Gay. 301 



JOHN GAY. 1688- 1732. 

'T was when the sea was roaring 
"With hollow blasts of wind, 
A damsel lay deploring, 
All on a rock reclin'd. 

1 The What D'ye call V. Act ii. St. 8. 

So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, 
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 9. 

? T is woman that seduces all mankind ; 
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. 
The Beggar's Opera. Adi. Sc. 1. 

Over the hills and far away. 1 ^id. Act I Sc. 1. 

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, 
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. 

Ibid. Ad ii. St. I. 

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. 

Ibid. Ad ii. St. 2. 

Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. 

Ibid. Act ii. St. 2. 

How happy could I be with either, 
Were t other dear charmer away. 

Ibid. Ad ii. St. 2. 

1 And 't is o'er the hills and far away. 
Jockeys La7nentation. From Wit's Mirth^ Vol. iv. 



302 Gay. 

The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, 
The judges all rang'd ; a terrible show ! 

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd. 

Sweet William } s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. 

Adieu, she cried, and wav'd her lily hand. 



Ibid. 



FABLES. 



Long experience made him sage. 

The Shepherd and the Philosopher. 

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil 

O'er books consum'd the midnight oil? 1 ibid. 

When yet was ever found a mother 
Who 'd give her booby for another ? 

The Mother, the Nurse, a7id the Fairy. 

Is there no hope ? the sick man said ; 
The silent doctor shook his head. 

The Sick Man and the Angel. 

While there is life there 's hope, he cried. 2 

Ibid. 
Those who in quarrels interpose 
Must often wipe a bloody nose. The Mastiffs. 

1 'midnight oil,' a common phrase, used by Quarles, 
Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others. 

2 'EAtt/oVs iv £ooolaiv, avekiricrToi he 6av6vr€s. 

Theocritus, Id. iv. Line 42. 
iEgroto, dum anima est, spes est. 

Cicero, Epist. ad Att. ix. 10. 



Lady Montague. 303 

Gay continued.] 

And when a lady 's in the case, 

You know all other things give place. 

The Ha,7'e and many F?'ieitds. 

Life is a jest, and all things show it \ 
I thought so once, but now I know it. 

My own Epitaph. 



LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 
1690- 1762. 

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, — 
In part she is to blame that has been tried : 
He comes too near that comes to be denied. 

The Lady's Resolve! 

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at 
last. 2 The Lover. 

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet \ 
In short, my deary ! kiss me, and be quiet. 

A Stimmary of Lord Lyttletoii's Advice. 

Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen, 
Wound with a touch that ? s scarcely felt or seen. 
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace. Book ii. 

1 A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Mon- 
tague, after her marriage (1713)- The last lines were 
taken from Overbury : — 

In part to blame is she 
Which hath without consent bin only tride : 
lie comes to neere that comes to be denide. 

The Wife, St. 36. 

2 What say you to such a supper with such a woman ? 

Byron, Note to Letter on Bowles. 



304 Macklin. — Green. — Theobald. 



KANE O'HARA. 1782. 

Pray, goody, please to moderate the rancour of 
your tongue ; 

Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes ? 

Remember, when the judgment 's weak, the preju- 
dice is Strong. Midas. Act i. Sc. 4. 



-o- 



CHARLES MACKLIN. 1690- 1797. 

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that 
smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket ; and 
the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to 
the professors than the justice of it. 

Love ci la Mode. Act ii. Sc. I. 



MATTHEW GREEN. 1696- 1737. 

Fling but a stone, the giant dies. 

The Spleen. Lme 93. 



LOUIS THEOBALD. 1691-1744. 

None but himself can be his parallel. 1 

The Double Falsehood. 

1 Quaeris Alcidae parem ? 
Nemo est nisi ipse. 

Seneca, Hercules Fur ens, Act i. Sc. I. 
And but herself admits no parallel. 

Massinger, Duke of Milan, Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Byrom. 305 

JOHN BYROM. 1691-1763. 

God bless the King, I mean the faith's defender ; 
God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender ; 
But who pretender is, or who is king, — 
God bless us all, — that 's quite another thing. 
To an Officer of the Army, extempore. 

Take time enough : all other graces 
Will soon fill up their proper places. 1 

Advice to Preach Slow, 

Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, 
That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny ; 
Others aver that he to Handel 
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. 
Strange all this difference should be 
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 

On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini! 1 

As clear as a whistle. Epistle to Lloyd. 

Bone and Skin, two millers thin, 
Would starve us all, or near it \ 

But be it known to Skin and Bone 
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. 

Epigram on Two Monopolists. 

1 Learn to read slow : all other graces 
Will follow in their proper places. 

Walker, Art of Reading. 
2 " Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon 
Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." 
Byroni } s Remains (Chetham Soc), Vol. i. p. 173. The last 
two lines have been attributed to Swift and Pope. See 
Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope. 



306 Chesterfield. — Mallett. 

EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 1694- 1773. 

Sacrifice to the Graces. 1 Letter. March 9, 1748. 

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth 
its way through the world. Like a great rough 
diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way 
of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. 

Letter. July I, 1748. 

Style is the dress of thoughts. 

Letter. Nov. 24, 1749. 

I assisted at the birth of that most significant 
word " flirtation," which dropped from the most 
beautiful mouth in the world. 

The World. No. 10 1. 

Unlike my subject now shall be my song, 
It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long. 

Lmpromptu Lines. 

The dews of the evening most carefully shun, — 
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. 

Advice to a Lady in Autumn, 



DAVID MALLETT. 1700- 1765. 

While tumbling down the turbid stream, 
Lord love us, how we apples swim ! Tyburn. 

1 Literally from the Greek Qy € reus XapLcrc — Diog. 
Laert. Lib. IV. § 6, Xe?iocrates. 



Blair, — Savage. 307 



ROBERT BLAIR. 1699- 1747. 

The Grave, dread thing ! 
Men shiver when thou'rt nam'd : Nature, appall'd, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. 

The Grave. Line 9. 

The school-boy, with his satchel in his hand, 
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. 1 

Ibid. Line 58. 

Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! 
Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! 

Ibid. Line 88. 

Of joys departed, 
Not to return, how painful the remembrance ! 

Ibid. Line 109. 

The good he scorn'd 
Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, 
Not to return : or, if it did, in visits 
Like those of angels, short and far between. 2 

Ibid. Part ii. Line 586. 



RICHARD SAVAGE. 1698- 1743. 

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race ; 
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. 

The Bastard. Li7ie 7. 

1 Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. 

Dry den, Amphitryon^ Actw.Sc* 1. 

2 Cf. Campbell, p. 440. 



308 Thomson. 



JAMES THOMSON. 1700- 1748. 

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness ! come. 
The Seasons. Spring. Line I. 

Base envy withers at another's joy, 

And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

Line 283. 
But who can paint 
Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, 
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? 

Liiie 465. 

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears 

Her snaky crest. Line 996. 

Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 
To teach the young idea how to shoot. 

Lute 1 149. 

An elegant sufficiency, content, 
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
Ease and alternate labour, useful life, 
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven ! 

Line 1 158. 

The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews. 

Summer . Line 47. 

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ? 

Line 67. 

But yonder comes the powerful King of Day 
Rejoicing in the east. Line 81. 

Ships, dim-discover' d, dropping from the clouds. 

Line 946. 



Thomson, 309 

And Mecca saddens at the long delay. 

Sitmmer . Line 979. 
Siglrd and look'd unutterable things. 

Line 1188. 
A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate 
Of mighty monarch s. Line 1285. 

So stands the statue that enchants the world, 
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, 
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. 

Line 1346. 
Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age. 

Line 15 16. 
Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. 

A nt um7i. Line 2. 

Loveliness 
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. 1 

Line 204. 
He saw her charming, but he saw not half 
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. 

Line 229. 

For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,* 
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. 

Line 233. 
See, W T inter comes, to rule the varied year. 

Winter. Li7ie 1. 
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. 

Line 393. 

1 In naked beauty, more adorn'd, 
More lovely, than Pandora. 

Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 713. 



310 Thomson. 

There studious let me sit, 
And hold high converse with the mighty dead. 

Winter. Line 43 1 . 
The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid. 

Line 625. 

These as they change, Almighty Father ! these 
Are but the varied God. The rolling year 
Is full of Thee. Hymn. Line 1. 

Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade. 

Line 25. 

From seeming evil still educing good. 

Line 114. 
Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise. 

Line 118. 
A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, 
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; 
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, 
For ever flushing round a summer sky : 
There eke the soft delights, that witchingly 
Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, 
And the calm pleasures, always hover'd nigh ; 
But whate'er smack'd of noyance, or unrest, 
AVas far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest. 

The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6. 

O fair undress, best dress ! it checks no vein, 
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, 
And heightens ease with grace. 

Canto i. Stanza 26. 
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main. 

Canto i. Stanza 30. 

Scoundrel maxim. Canto i. Stanza 50. 



Thomson. 311 

A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. 
The Castle of Indolence. Ca?zto i. Stanza 68. 

A little round, fat, oily man of God. 

Canto i. Stanza 69. 

I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : 
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; 
You cannot shut the windows of the sky, 
Through which Aurora shows her brightening 

face ; 
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace 
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : 
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, 
And I their toys to the great children leave : 
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave. 

Canto ii. Stanza 3. 

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 

An unrelenting foe to love ; 
And, when we meet a mutual heart, 

Come in between and bid us part ? 

Song, For ever, Fortune. 

Whoe'er amidst the sons 
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, 
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble 
Of Nature's own creating. 

Coriolamts. Act. iii. Sc. 3. 

O Sophonisba ! Sophonisba, O ! 1 

Sophonisba. Act. iii. Sc. 2. 

1 The line was altered, after the second edition, to 
" O Sophonisba ! I am wholly thine." 



312 Dyer. — Wesley. — Dodsley. 

[Thomson continued. 

When Britain first, at Heaven's command 

Arose from out the azure main, 
This was the charter of her land, 

And guardian angels sung the strain : 
Rule Britannia ! Britannia rules the waves ! 
Britons never shall be slaves. 

Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5. 



JOHN DYER. 1700- 1758. 

Ever charming, ever new, 

When will the landscape tire the view ? 

Grongar Hill. Line 5. 



JOHN WESLEY. 1703 -1 791. 

That execrable sum of all villanies commonly 
called A Slave Trade. Journal. Feb. 12, 1792. 

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. " Cleanli- 
ness is indeed next to godliness. " 

Sermon xcii. On Dress, 



ROBERT DODSLEY. 1703- 1764. 

One kind kiss before we part, 
Drop a tear, and bid adieu ; 

Though we sever, my fond heart 
Till we meet shall pant for you. 

The Parting Kiss. 



Bramston. — Howard. 3 1 3 



JAMES BRAMSTON. 1744. 

But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, 
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense : 
" I hear a lion in the lobby roar ; 
Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door 
And keep him there, or shall we let him in 
To try if we can turn him out again ? " * 

Art of Politics. 

So Britain's monarch once uncover d sat, 
While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimm'd hat. 

Man of Taste. 



DR. SAMUEL HOWARD. — 1782. 

Gentle shepherd, tell me where ? Song. 

1 " I hope/' said Col. Titus, " we shall not be wise as 
the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To 
trust expedients with such a king on the throne would be 
just as wise as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we 
should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fasten- 
ing the door to keep him out.'' — On the Exclusion Bill. 
January 7, 1 68 1. 

Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore 
A hungry lion give a grievous roar ; 
The grievous roar echoed along the shore. 
Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore 
Another lion give a grievous roar, 
And the first lion thought the last a bore. 

T. B. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso* 
14 



314 Fielding. 



HENRY FIELDING. 1707- 1754. 

All nature wears one universal grin. 

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. I. 
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day ; 
Let other hours be set apart for business. 
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk \ 
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. 

Act\. Sc. 2. 

When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough. 
I 've done my duty, and I Ve done no more. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. 

Act i. St. 3. 
To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, 
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets, 
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, 
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. 1 

Act i. St. 6. 

1 Thus when a barber and a collier fight, 
The barber beats the luckless collier — white ; 
The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, 
And, big with vengeance, beats the barber — black. 
In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, 
And beats the collier and the barber — red ; 
Black, red, and white, in various clouds are tost, 
And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. 

Christ. Smart, From The Trip to Cambridge. Campbell's 
Specimens ', Vol.v'i.p. 185. 



Doddridge. — Cotton. 3 1 5 

Fielding continued.] 

Oh ! the roast beef of Old England, 
And oh ! the old English roast beef. 

The Roast Beef of Old England. 



PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751. 

Live while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day ; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Lord, in my views let both united be ; 
I live in pleasure when I live to thee. 

Epigram on his Family Arms. 1 



NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707 -1788. 

If solid happiness we prize, 
Within our breast this jewel lies ; 

And they are fools who roam : 
The world has nothing to bestow ; 
From our own selves our joys must flow, 

And that dear hut, — our home. 

The Fireside. St. 3. 

Thus hand in hand through life we '11 go ; 
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe 
With cautious steps we '11 tread. 

Ibid. St. 13. 

1 Dum vivimus vivamus. 

From Ortin's Life of Doddridge. 



316 Franklin. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706- 1790. 
God helps them that help themselves. 1 

Poor Richard. 

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, 
for that is the stuff life is made of. ibid. 

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ibid. 

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can 
do to-day. ibid. 

Three removes are as bad as a fire. ibid. 

Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore, ibid. 

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. 

The Whistle. (Nov. 17 19.) 

There never was a good war or a bad peace. 2 

Letter to Quincy, Sept. 1 1, 1773. 

Here Skugg 
Lies snug, 
As a bug 
In a rug. 
From a Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley. 

1 Help thyself, and God will help thee. 

Herbert, Jacula Prndentum. 
2 It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be pre- 
ferred before a just war. — S. Butler, Speeches in the Rump 
Parliament. Butler's Remains. 



Johnson. 317 



SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709 -1784. 

Let observation with extensive view 
Survey mankind from China to Peru. 1 

Vaiiity of Human Wishes. Line I. 

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — 
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 

Line 159. 
He left the name at which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221. 
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know 
That life protracted is protracted woe. 

Li?ie 257. 
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, 
And glides in modest innocence away. 

Line 293. 

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. 

Line 308. 
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! 
From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage 

flow, 
And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. 

Line 316. 
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, 
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate ? 

Line 345. 
For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill. 

Line 362. 

1 All human race, from China to Peru, 
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue. 
Rev. T. War ton, The Universal Love of Pleasure. 



3 1 8 Johnson, 

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, 
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. 

London. Line 1 66. 

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, 
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. 

Line 176. 

Each change of many-colour' d life he drew, 
Exhausted worlds and then imagin'd new. 

Prologue 07t the Opening of Drnry Lane Theatre. 

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. 

IbitL 

For we that live to please must please to live. 

Ibid. 

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour ; 

Improve each moment as it flies ; 
Life 's a short summer — man a flower — 

He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 

Winter An Ode. 

Officious, innocent, sincere ; 

Of every friendless name the friend. 

Verses on Robert Levet. Stanza 2. 

In misery's darkest cavern known, 
His useful care was ever nigh 1 

Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, 
And lonely want retired to die. 

Stanza 5. 

1 Var. His ready help was always nigh. 



Johnson. 319 

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, 1 

No cold gradations of decay, 
Death broke at once the vital chain, 

And freed his soul the nearest way. 

Verses on Robert Levet. Stanza 9. 

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove 
The pangs of guilty power and hapless love; 
Rest here, distrest by poverty no more, 
Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before ; 
Sleep, undisturb'd, within this peaceful shrine, 
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine ! 

Epitaph on Claudius Philips, the Musician. 

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, 
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, 
And touched nothing that he did not adorn. 2 

Epitaph on Goldsmith. 

How small, of all that human hearts endure, 
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! 
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, 
Our own felicity we make or find. 
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, 
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. 

Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. 

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 

Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village. 

1 Var. Then with no fiery throbbing pain. 
2 Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. 
He adorns whatever he attempts. 

Fenelon, Eulogy on Cicero. 
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote 
upon by the most splendid eloquence. — Chesterfield's 
Characters : Bolingbroke. 



320 yohnson. 

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, 
Path, motive, guide, original, and end. 

The Rambler. No. 7. 

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of 
fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms 
of hope ; who expect that age will perform the 
promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the 
present day will be supplied by the morrow ; at- 
tend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abys- 
sinia. Rasselas. Chap. i. 

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget 
that words a?'e the daughters of earth, and that 
things are the sons of heaven. 1 

From The Preface to his Dictionary. 

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons 
are things. 2 

From Dr. Madderfs " Boulter's Monument." Supposed 
to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1 745. 

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, 
familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not os- 
tentatious, must give his days and nights to the 
volumes of Addison. Life of Addison. 

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, 

1 The italics and the word " forget " would seem to im- 
ply that the saying was not his own. Sir William Jones 
gives a similar saying in India : " Words are the daugh- 
ters of earth and deeds are the sons of heaven." 

2 Words are women, deeds are men. — Herbert, Jacula 
Prudentum, Sir Thomas Bodley, Letter to his Librarian, 
1604. 



yohnson. 321 

of which the rewards are distant, and which is 
animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by 
degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated 
and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated 
calls to worship, and the salutary influence of 
example. Life of Milton. 

The trappings of a monarchy would set up 
an ordinary commonwealth. ibid. 

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and 
impoverished the public stock of harmless pleas- 
ure. Life of Edmund Smith (alluding to the death 
of Garrick). 

That man is little to be envied whose patriot- 
ism would not gain force upon the plain of Mar- 
athon, or whose piety would not grow warmer 
among the ruins of Iona. 

Journey to the Western Islands : Inch Kemieth. 

If he does really think that there is no dis- 
tinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when 
he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. 

BoswelPs Life of Johnson. An. 1763. 

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a sub- 
ject ourselves, or we know where we can find 
information upon it. ibid. An. 1775. 

There is nothing which has yet been contrived 
by man, by which so much happiness is produced 
as by a good tavern or inn. ibid. An. 1776. 

Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men,) 
but he who aspires to be a hero must drink 
brandy. ibid. An. 1779. 

14* u 



322 Pitt. 

[Johnson continued. 

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. 1 
BoswelPs Life of Johnson. An. 1784. 

If the man who turnips cries 
Cry not when his father dies, 
'T is a proof that he had rather 
Have a turnip than his father. 

Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30. 
A good hater. Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 39. 

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold 
readily in your hand, are the most useful after 

all. Ibid. Hawkins, 197. 



WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. 

1708 - 1778. 

The atrocious crime of being a young man. 

Speech, March 6, 174 1. 

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an 

aged bosom. Speech, January 14, 1766. 

A long train of these practices has at length 
unwillingly convinced me that there is something 
behind the Throne greater than the King him- 
self. Speech, March 2, 1770. {Chatham Correspondence.) 

1 Parody on " Who rules o'er freemen should himself 
be free." — From Brooke's Gnstamis Vasa, First edition. 

2 Quoted by Lord Mahon, " greater than the Throne 
itself." — History of England, Vol. v. p. 258. 



Pitt. 323 

Where law ends, tyranny begins. 

Speech, Jan. 9, 1770. Case of Wilkes. 

If I were an American, as I am an English- 
man, while a foreign troop was landed in my 
country, I never would lay down my arms, never 
— never — never. Speech, Nov. 18, 1777. 

Necessity is the argument of tyrants, 1 it is the 
creed of slaves. 

Speech 011 the India Bill. Nov. 1783. 

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defi- 
ance to all the force of the crown. It may be 
frail ; its roof may shake ; the wind may blow 
through it ; the storms may enter, the rain may 
enter, — but the King of England cannot enter ! 
all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the 

ruined tenement. 2 Speech on the Excise Bill. 

Indemnity for the past and security for the future. 3 

The Church of England hath a Popish liturgy, 
a Calvinistic creed, and an Arminian clergy. 

Asa'ibed to Pitt. 

1 Necessity, the tyrant's plea. 

Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 393. 

2 From Brougham's Statesmen of George LLL First Se- 
ries, p. 41. 

3 Mr. Pitt's phrase. — De Quincey, Theol. Essays, 
Vol.n.p. 170. See also Russell's Memoir of Fox, Vol. 
iii. p. 345. Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland. 



324 Lyttelton. 



LORD LYTTELTON. 1709- 1773. 

For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught 

lyre 
None but the noblest passions to inspire, 
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, 
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. 
Prologue to Thomson'' s Coriolanus. 

Women, like princes, find few real friends. 

Advice to a Lady. 

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, 
Your heart's supreme ambition ? To be fair. 

Ibid. 

The lover in the husband may be lost. ibid. 

How much the wife is dearer than the bride. 

An Irregular Ode. 

None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, 
But love can hope where reason would despair. 

Epigram. 

Where none admire, 't is useless to excel ; 
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle. 
Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country. 

Alas ! by some degree of woe 

We every bliss must gain ; 
The heart can ne'er a transport know 

That never feels a pain. Song. 



Moore. — Dyer. 325 



EDWARD MOORE. 1712-1757. 

Can't I another's face commend, 
And to her virtues be a friend, 
But instantly your forehead lowers, 
As if her merit lessened yours ? 
Fable ix. The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat 

The maid who modestly conceals 
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals ; 
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws 
Whate'er the Grecian Venus was. 

Fable x. The Spider and the Bee. 

But from the hoop's bewitching round, 
Her very shoe has power to wound, ibid. 

Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, 
And gives to her mind what he steals from her 

youth. The Happy Marriage. 

'T is now the summer of your youth : time has 
not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sor- 
row long has washed them. 

The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4. 



DYER. 



And he that will this health deny, 
Down among the deajl men let him lie. 

Published in the early part of the reign of George I. 



326 Sterne. 



LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1768. 

Go, poor devil, get thee gone ; why should I 
hurt thee ? This world surely is wide enough to 
hold both thee and me. 

Tristram Shandy. Vol. ii. Ch. xii. 

" Our armies swore terribly in Flanders/' cried 
my uncle Toby, " but nothing to this." 

Ibid. Vol. iii. Ch. xi. 

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's 
chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; 
and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, 
dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out 
forever. 1 Ibid. Vol. vi. Ch. viii. 

" They order," said I, " this matter better in 

France. Sentimental Journey. Page I. 

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to 
Beersheba, and cry, 'T is all barren. 

Ibid. In the Street. Calais. 

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 2 

Ibid. Maria. 

" Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," 
said I, " still thou art a bitter draught." 

Ibid. The Passport. The Hotel at Paris. 

1 Cf. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii. line 357. 

2 Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue. — Henri 
Estienne, Premices, etc., p. 47. (1594.) 

To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. — 
Herbert, Jacula Prudentnm. s 



Shens tone. 327 



WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 1714-1763. 

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, 
Where'er his stages may have been, 

May sigh to think he still has found 
The warmest welcome at an inn. 1 

Written on a Window of an Inn. 

So sweetly she bade me adieu, 

I thought that she bade me return. 

A Pastoral. Part i. 

I have found out a gift for my fair ; 
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. 

Ibid. Part ii. Hope. 

For seldom shall she hear a tale 
So sad, so tender, and so true. 

Je??imy Dawson. 

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, 
Emblems right meet of decency does yield. 

The Schoolmistress. St. 5. 

Pun-provoking thyme. ibid. St. 11. 

A little bench of heedless bishops here, 
And there a chancellor in embryo. 

Ibid. St. 28, 

1 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by* 
man by which so much happiness is produced as by a 
good tavern or inn. — Johnson, BoswelPs life, 1766. 

Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to 
choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. — Works, 
Vol. \. p. 76. 



328 Gray, 



THOMAS GRAY. 1716-1771. 

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers. 

On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza I. 

Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! 

Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! 
Where once my careless childhood stray'd, 

A stranger yet to pain ! 
I feel the gales that from ye blow 

A momentary bliss bestow. Stanza 2. 

They hear a voice in every wind, 

And snatch a fearful joy. Stanza 4. 

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, 

Less pleasing when possest ; 
The tear forgot as soon as shed, 

The sunshine of the breast. Stanza 5. 

Alas ! regardless of their doom, 

The little victims play ; 
No sense they have of ills to come, 

Nor care beyond to-day. 

Ah, tell them they are men ! Sta?zza 6. 

And moody madness laughing wild, 

Amid severest woe. Stanza 8. 

To each his sufferings \ all are men, 

Condemn'd alike to groan, — 
The tender for another's pain, 

The unfeeling for his own. 



Gray. 329 

Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, 
Since sorrow never comes too late, 

And happiness too swiftly flies ? 

Thought would destroy their paradise. 

No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 

'T is folly to be wise.* 1 Stanza 10. 

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, 
Thou tamer of the human breast, 

Whose iron scourge and torturing hour 
The bad affright, afflict the best ! 

Hymn to Adversity. 

From Helicon's harmonious springs 

A thousand rills their mazy progress take. 

The Progress of Poesy. I. 1. Line 3. 

Glance their many-twinkling feet. 1.3. Linen. 

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move 
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of 
Love. I. 3. Line 16. 

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, 
Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, 
The unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy 
flame. II. 2. Line 10. 

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. 

III. 1. Line 12. 

1 From ignorance our comfort flows. 
The only wretched are the wise. 

Prior, To the Hon. Charles Montague. 
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. — 
Ecclesiastes i. 18. 



330 Gray. 

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : 
The living throne, the sapphire blaze, 
Where angels tremble while they gaze, 
He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, 
Closed his eyes in endless night. 

The Progress of Poesy. III. 2. Line 4. 

Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, 
Scatters from her pictured urn 
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 1 

III. 3. Li?ie 2. 
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, 
Beneath the Good how far, — but far above the 
Great. III. 3. Line 16. 

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King ! 

Confusion on thy banners wait ! 
Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing', 

They mock the air with idle state. 

The Bard. I. 1. Line I. 

Loose his beard and hoary hair 

Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air. 2 

I. 2. Line 5. 

To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay. 

I. 2. Line 14. 

1 Words that weep and tears that speak. 

Cowley, The Prophet. 

2 An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, 
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care. 

Cowley, Davideis, Book ii. Line 102. 
The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, 
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book i. Line 536. 



Gray. 331 

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes ; 
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. 1 
The Bard. I. 3. Line 12. 
Weave the warp, and weave the woof, 

The winding-sheet of Edward's race. 
Give ample room, and verge enough, 2 
The characters of hell to trace. 

II. 1. Line 1. 
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, 

While proudly riding o'er the azure realm 
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; 

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; 
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 
That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning 

prey. II. 2. Line 9. 

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, 
With many a foul and midnight murder fed. 

II. 2. Line 11. 
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! 

Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! 

III. 1. Line 11. 
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. 

III. 3. Line 3. 

1 As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, Act ii. Sc. I. 
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life ; 
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee. 
Otway, Venice Prese^ued, Act v. Sc. I. 
2 Like an ample shield, 
Can take in all, and verge enough for more. 

Dry den, Don Sebastian, Act i. Sc. 1. 



332 Gray. 

Comus, and his midnight crew. 

Ode for Music. Line 2. 
While bright-eyed Science watches round. 

Line n. 
The still small voice of gratitude. Line 64. 

Iron sleet of arrowy shower 
Hurtles in the darken'd air. 

The Fatal Sisters. Line 3. 
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. 1 
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 1. 

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, 

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

Stanza 4. 
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn. 

Stanza 5. 
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of the poor. 

Stanza 8. 

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour. 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 

Stanza 9. 

Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted 
vault, 
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 

Stanza 10. 
1 The first edition reads, — 

" The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea." 



Gray. 333 

Can stoned urn, or animated bust, 

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, 

Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? 
Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza n. 

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, 
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 

Stanza 12. 

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; l 

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, 
And froze the genial current of the soul. 

Stanza 13. 

Full many a gem of purest ray serene 

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : 

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 2 

Stanza 14. 

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless 
breast, 

The little tyrant of his fields withstood, 
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, 

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 

Stanza 15. 

1 Rich with the spoils of nature. — Sir Thomas Browne, 
Relig. Med., Part i. Sect. xiii. 

2 Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. 

Churchill, Gotham, Book ii. Line 20. 
And waste their music on the savage race. 

Young, Love of Fame, Sat. v. Line 228. 



334 Gray. 

To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 

And read their history in a nation's eyes. 

Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 16. 

Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, 
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. 

Stanza 17. 

Along the cool sequester' d vale of life, 

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

Stanza 19. 

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 

Stanza 20. 

And many a holy text around she strews, 
That teach the rustic moralist to die. 

Stanza 21. 

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, 

Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind ? 

Stanza 22. 

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, 
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 1 

Stanza 23. 

Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, 
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 

Stanza 25. 

One morn I miss'd him on the 'custom'd hill. 

Stanza 28. 

1 Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. 

Chaucer, The Reves Prologue , Line 28. 



Gray. 335 

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, 

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : 
Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 

And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 

The- Epitaph. 
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 

Heaven did a recompense as largely send : 
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, 

He gain'd from heaven ('t was all he wish'd) a 
friend. ibid. 

No farther seek his merits to disclose, 

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, 
(There they alike in trembling hope repose,) 

The bosom of his Father and his God. 

Ibid. 
And weep the more, because I weep in vain. 
Sonnet. On the Death of Mr. West. 

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, 
Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe. 
Ode on the Pleasitre arising from Vicissitude. Line 45. 

The meanest floweret of the vale, 
The simplest note that swells the gale, 
The common sun, the air, the skies, 
To him are opening paradise. Line 53. 

And hie him home, at evening's close, 
To sweet repast and calm repose. Line 87. 

From toil he wins his spirits light, 
From busy day the peaceful night ; 
Rich, from the very want of wealth, 
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. 

Line 93. 



336 Hurd. 

[Gray continued. 

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, 
And Gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes. 1 

Rich windows that exclude the light, 
And passages that lead to nothing. 

A Long Story. 

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune ; 
He had not the method of making a fortune. 

On his own Character. 

A favorite has no friend. 2 

On the Death of a Favorite Cat. 

Now as the Paradisaical pleasures of the Ma- 
hometans consist in playing upon the flute and 
lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new 
romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. 

To Mr. West. Letter iv. ^d Series. 



RICHARD HURD. 1720- 1808. 

In this awfully stupendous manner, at which 
Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half 
confounded, was the grace of God to man at 
length manifested. Sermons. Vol. ii.p. 287. 

1 This was intended to be introduced in the poem on 
the "Alliance of Education and Government." — Mason, 
Vol. iii. p. 114. 

2 One of Aristotle's sayings was <a (£t'Xoi, ovde\s (pi^os, 
according to Casaubon's reading of Diog. Laertius, Lib. v. 
§ 21, Ciii sunt amici, non est amicus. 



Brown. — Akenside. 337 



JOHN BROWN. 1715 -1766. 

New let us thank the Eternal Power : convine'd 
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, — 
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour 
Serves but to brighten all our future days. 

Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3. 

And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. 
An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope. 1 



MARK AKENSIDE. 1721 = 1770. 

Such and so various are the tastes of men. 

Pleasures of the Imagination. Book iii. Line 567. 

Than Timoleon's arms require, 
And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden 
lyre. 

Ode. On a Sermon against Glory. St. ii. 

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, 
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. 

Epistle to Curio. 

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, 
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. 

The Virtuoso. St. x. 

1 Anderson's British Poets, x. 879. See note in Con- 
temporary Review, Sept. 1867, p. 4. 

15 v 



338 Townley. — Garrick. 



JAMES TOWNLEY. 1715-1778. 

Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? 
No, I never read Shikspur. 

Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleas- 
ure to come. High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. I. 

From humble Port to imperial Tokay. ibid. 



DAVID GARRICK. 1716-1779. 
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. 

Prologue to The Gamesters. 

Their cause I plead, — plead it in heart and mind; 
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. 1 

Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. 

Let others hail the rising sun : 

I bow to that whose course is run. 2 

On the Death of Mr. Pelham. 
This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, 
and poet. Jupiter and Mercury. 

1 I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. — Burton, 
Anatomy of Melancholy ; Democritus to the Reader. 

Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco. 

Virgil, sEneid, Lib. i. 630. 

2 Pompey .... bade Sylla recollect that more wor- 
shipped the rising than the setting sun. — Clough, Dry- 
den's Plutarch, iv. 66. Life of Pompey. 



Collins. 339 



WILLIAM COLLINS. 1720 -1756. 

How sleep the brave who sink to rest, 
By all their country's wishes bless'd ! 

Ode in 174.6. 

By fairy hands their knell is rung; 

By forms unseen their dirge is sung; 

There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, 

To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 

And Freedom shall awhile repair, 

To dwell a weeping hermit there. Ibid. 

When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 
While yet in early Greece she sung. 

The Passions. Line I. 
Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd. Ibid. Li7ie 10. 

'T was sad by fits, by starts J t was wild. 

Ibid. Line 28. 

In notes by distance made more sweet. 

Ibid. Line 60. 

In hollow murmurs died away. 

Ibid. Line 68. 

O Music ! sphere-descended maid, 
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ! 

Ibid. Line 95. 

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; 
'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. 

Eclogue I. Line 5. 



340 Foote. — Merrick. — Smollett. 

[Collins continued. 

Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part ; 
Nature in him was almost lost in Art. 
To Sir Thomas Hanmer on his Edition of Shakespeare. 

In yonder grave a Druid lies. 

Ode on the Death of Thomson. 



SAMUEL FOOTE. 1720- 1777. 

He made him a hut, wherein he did put 
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. 
O poor Robinson Crusoe ! 

The Mayor of Garratt. Act i. *SV. I. 



JAMES MERRICK. 1720- 1769. 
Not what we wish, but what we want. Hymn. 



TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 1721-1771. 

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; 

Lord of the lion heart, and eagle eye, 
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 

Ode to Independence. 

Facts are stubborn things. 1 

Translation of Gil Bias. Book x, Ch. I. 

1 Facts are stubborn things. — Elliot, Essay on Field 
Husba?idry, p. 35. ( 1 747.) 



Home, — Gifford. — Murphy. 341 



JOHN HOME. 1724-1808. 

In the first days 
Of my distracting grief, I found myself 
As women wish to be who love their lords. 

Douglas. Act i. Sc. I. 

My name is Norval ; on the Grampian hills 
My father feeds his flocks ; a frugal swain, 
Whose constant cares were to increase his store, 
And keep his only son, myself, at home. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. I. 

Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die. 

Ibid. Actv.Sc. 1. 



RICHARD GIFFORD. 1725 -1807. 

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; 

All at her work the village maiden sings, 
Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, 

Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 

Contemplation. 



ARTHUR MURPHY. 1727-1805. 

Thus far we run before the wind. 

The Appre7itice. Act v. Sc. I. 

Above the vulgar flight of common souls. 

Zenobia. Act v. 



34 2 Goldsmith. 

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728- 1774. 

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. 

The Traveller. Line I. 
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, 
My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; 
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, 
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 

Line 7. 
And learn the luxury of doing good. 1 Line 22. 

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. 

Line 26. 
These little things are great to little man. 

Line 42. 
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine ! 

Line 50. 

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 
His first, best country ever is at home. 

Line 73. 

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. 

Liiie 126. 

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd ; 
The sports of children satisfy the child. 

Line 153. 

But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 

Line 172. 

1 For all their luxury was doing good. 

Garth, Claremont, Li7ie 148. 

He tried the luxury of doing good. 

Crabbe, Tales of the I/all, Book iii. 



Goldsmith. 343 

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, 
But bind him to his native mountains more. 

The Traveller. Line 217. 
Alike all ages : dames of ancient days 
Have led their children through the mirthful 

maze ; 
And the gay grandsire, skill' d in gestic lore, 
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 

Line 251. 

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. 
Methinks her patient sons before me stand 
Where the broad ocean leans against the land. 

Line 282. 

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, 
I see the lords of humankind pass by. 1 

Line 327. 

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms. 

Line 356. 

For just experience tells, in every soil, 

That those that think must govern those that toil. 

Line 372. 

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 

Line 386. 

Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train. 

Line 409. 

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find 
That bliss which only centres in the mind. 

Line 423. 

1 Lord of humankind. — Dryden, The Spanish Friar. 
Act ii. Sc. 1. 



344 Goldsmith. 

Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain. 

The Deserted Village. Line I. 

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, 
For talking age and whispering lovers made. 

Line 13. 

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. 

Line 29. 

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. 
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, 
A breath can make them as a breath has made ; l 
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 
When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 

Line 51. 

His best companions, innocence and health 
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 

Line 61. 

How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, 

A youth of labour with an age of ease ! 

Line 99. 

While resignation gently slopes away, — 
And, all his prospects brightening to the last, 
His heaven commences ere the world be past. 

Line no. 

1 C'est un verre qui luit, 
Qu'un souffle peut detruire, et qu'un souffle a produit. 
De Caux (comparing the world to his hour-glass). 
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose ; 
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 
Pope, Sat and Ep. of Horace, Book ii. Ep. I. Line 299. 



Goldsmith. ' 345 

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering 

wind, 
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 

The Deserted Village. Line 12 1. 
A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

Line 141. 

Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, 
Shoulder'd his crutch and show'd how fields were 

won. Line 157. 

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 
His pity gave ere charity began. Line 161. 

And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. 

Line 164. 
And, as a bird each fond endearment tries 
To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, 
He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, 
Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. 

Line 167. 
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, 
And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. 

Line 179. 
And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's 
smile. Line 184. 

As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, 
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the 

storm, 
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are 

spread, 
Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Line 189. 
15* 



34-6 Goldsmith. 

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace 
The day's disasters in his morning face ; 
Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, 
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; 
Full well the busy whisper, circling round, 
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frovvn'd : 
Yet was he kind, or, if severe in aught, 
The love he bore to learning was in fault. 

The Deserted Village. Line 199. 
In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, 
For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still • 
While words of learned length and thund'ring 

sound 
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; 
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

Line 211. 

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, 
The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door, 
The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay, 
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. 

Line 227. 

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, 
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. 

Line 253. 

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, 
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. 

Line 263. 

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. 

Line 329. 



Goldsmith. 347 

In all the silent manliness of grief. 

The Deserted Village. Line 384. 
Luxury ! thou curst by Heaven's decree. 

Line 385. 
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, 
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. 

Li?ie 413. 

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom 
with mirth. Retaliation. Li7ie 24. 

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, 

And to party gave up what was meant for man- 
kind : 

Though fraught with all learning, yet straining 
his throat, 

To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a 
vote. 

Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on re- 
fining, 

And thought of convincing, while they thought 
of dining : 

Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; 

Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 

Line 31. 

His conduct still right, with his argument wrong. 

Line 46. 

A flattering painter, who made it his care 
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they 
are. Line 63. 

An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 

Line 94. 



348 Goldsmith. 

As a* wit, if not first, in the very first line. 

Retaliation. Line 96. 

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 
'T was only that when he was off he was acting. 

Line 101. 

He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, 
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle 
them back. Line 107. 

Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please. 

Line 112. 

When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, 

and stuff, 
He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. 

Line 145. 

Taught by that Power that pities me, 

I learn to pity them. The Hermit Stanza 6. 

Man wants but little here below, 

Nor wants that little long. 1 ibid. Stanza 8. 

And what is friendship but a name, 

A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A shade that follows wealth or fame, 

And leaves the wretch to weep ? 

Ibid. Stanza 19 

The sigh that rends thy constant heart 
Shall break thy Edwin's too. 

Ibid. Stanza nit. 
1 Cf. Young, Night Thoughts, iv. Line 118. 



Goldsmith. 349 

The naked every day he clad 
When he put on his clothes. 

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. 

And in that town a dog was found, 

As many dogs there be, 
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, 

And curs of low degree. ibid. 

The dog, to gain his private ends, 

Went mad, and bit the man. ibid. 

The man recover'd of the bite, 

The dog it was that died. ibid. 

When lovely woman stoops to folly, 
And finds too late that men betray, 

What charm can soothe her melancholy? 
W T hat art can wash her guilt away ? 

On Woman ( Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. xxiw). 

The only art her guilt to cover, 
To hide her shame from every eye, 

To give repentance to her lover, 

And wring his bosom, is — to die. Ibid. 

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, 

Still, still on hope relies ; 
And every pang that rends the heart 

Bids expectation rise. 

The Captivity. Act ii. Orig. MS. 

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light. 

Adorns and cheers the way ; 
And still, as darker grows the night, 

Emits a brighter ray. Ibid. 



350 Mason. 

[Goldsmith continued. 

Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 1 
The Good-Natured Man. Act ii. 

The very pink of perfection. 

She stoops to conquer. Act i. Sc. I. 

A concatenation accordingly, ibid. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Ask me no questions, and I '11 tell you no fibs. 

Ibid. Act iii. 

The king himself has follow'd her 
When she has walk'd before. 

Elegy 07t Mrs. Mary Blaize. 2 

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; 
It 's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a 
shirt. The Haunch of Venison. 



WILLIAM MASON. 1725-1797. 

The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. Heroic Epistle. 

1 Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures. 
— Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. 

2 Written in imitation of Chanson sur le fameux La 
Talisse, which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye. 

" On dit que dans ses amours 
II fut caresse des belles, 
Qui le suivirent toujours, 
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles." 

3 To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy 
and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruf- 
fles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. — Tom 
Brown, Laconics. 



Burke, 351 



EDMUND BURKE. 1729 -1797. 

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose 
every system, are wisely careful never to set up 
any of their own. 
Preface to A Vindicatio7i of Natural Society?- Vol. i. p. 7. 

" War," says Machiavel, " ought to be the only 
study of a prince " ; and, by a prince, he means 
every sort of state, however constituted. " He 
ought," says this great political Doctor, " to con- 
sider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives 
him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to 
execute, military plans." A meditation on the 
conduct of political societies made old Hobbes 
imagine that war was the state of nature. 

A Vindication of Natural Society. Vol. i. p. 15. 

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance 
ceases to be a virtue. 

Observations on a Late Publication 071 the Present State 
of the Nation. Vol. \. p. 273. 

Illustrious predecessor. 

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. 
Vol. \. p. 456. 

When bad men combine, the good must asso- 
ciate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied 
sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle. 

Ibid. Vol i. p. 526. 

1 Boston Ed. 1865 -1867. 



352 Burke. 

A people who are still, as it were, but in the 
gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of 
manhood. 

Speech on Conciliation with America. Vol. ii. p. 117. 

A wise and salutary neglect. ibid. 

My vigour relents, — I pardon something to 
the spirit of liberty. ibid. Vol. Up. 118. 

All government, indeed every human benefit 
and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent 
act, is founded on compromise and barter. 

Ibid. Vol. ii. /. 169. 

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched 
from us at the moment of the election, and in 
the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were 
as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has 
feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what 
shadows we pursue. 

Speech at Bristol on Declini7igthe Poll. 1 Vol. ii. p. 429. 

They made and recorded a sort of institute 
and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. 

On the Army Estimates. Vol. iii. p. 221. 

You had that action and counteraction, which, 
in the natural and in the political world, from the 

1 At the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent ha- 
rangues, Mr. Cruger, finding nothing to add, or perhaps, 
as he thought, to add with effect, exclaimed earnestly in 
the language of the counting-house, " I say ditto to Mr. 
Burke, I say ditto to Mr. Burke." — Prior's Life of 
Burke, p. 152. 



Burke. 353 

reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws 
out the harmony of the universe. 1 

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 277. 

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I 
saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, 
at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this 
orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more 
delightful vision. I saw her just above the hori- 
zon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere 
she just began to move in, — glittering like the 
morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. 
.... Little did I dream that I should have lived 
to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of 
gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of 
cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must 
have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even 
a look that threatened her with insult. But the 
age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, 
economists, and calculators has succeeded. 

Ibid. Vol. iii. p. 331. 

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence 
of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and 
heroic enterprise, is gone. ibid. 

That chastity of honour which felt a stain 
like a wound. ibid. Vol iii. p. 332. 

1 Mr. Breen, in his Modern English Literature, says : 
" This remarkable thought, Alison, the historian, has 
turned to good account ; it occurs so often in his disqui- 
sitions, that he seems to have made it the staple of all 
wisdom and the basis of every truth." 

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354 Burke. 

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its 
grossness. 

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 332. 

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when sub- 
jects are rebels from principle. 

Ibid. Vol. iii. p. 334. 

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden 
down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 1 

Ibid. Vol. iii. p. 335. 

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a 
fern make the field ring with their importunate 
chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed 
beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the 
cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those 
who make the noise are the only inhabitants of 
the field, — that, of course, they are many in num- 
ber, — or that, after all, they are other than the 
little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud 
and troublesome insects of the hour. 

Ibid. Vol. iii. /. 344. 

He that wrestles with us strengthens our 
nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist 
is our helper. ibid. Vol. iii./. 453. 

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. 

Preface to Brissofs Address. Vol. v. p. 67. 

1 This expression was tortured to mean that he actually 
thought the people no better than swine, and the phrase, 
the swinish multitude, was bruited about in every form of 
speech and writing, in order to excite popular indignation. 



Burke. 355 

And having looked to government for bread, 
on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite 
the hand that fed them. 1 

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Vol. v. p. 156. 

All those instances to be found in history, 
whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public 
spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is 
staggered, and from which affrighted Nature re- 
coils, are their chosen and almost sole examples 
for the instruction of their youth. 

Letter i. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. v. p. 311. 

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. 

Speech 071 the Petition of the Unitarians. Vol. \\\. p. 50. 

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of 
a little country churchyard, than in the tomb of 
the Capulets. 2 

Letter to Matthew Smith. Prions Life, p. 33. 

It has all the contortions of the sibyl, without 
the inspiration. 3 Prior's Life of Burke. 

1 We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us. — - 
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. 

P- 439- 

2 Family vault of " all the Capulets." — Reflections on 
the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 349. 

3 When Croft's Life of Dr. Young was spoken of as a 
good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, 
" it is not a good imitation of Johnson ; it has all his pomp, 
without his force ; it has all the nodosities of the oak, 
without its strength ; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, 
without the inspiration." — Prior's Life of Burke, p. 468. 



3 5 6 Blackstone. — Porteus. 



SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 1723-1780. 

The royal navy of England hath ever been 
its greatest defence and ornament; it is its an- 
cient and natural strength, — the floating bul- 
wark of our island. 

Com?nentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Ch. xiii. § 418. 

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not 
to the contrary. ibid. Book i. Ch. xviii. § 472. 



BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731-1808. 

In sober state, 
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life, 
The venerable patriarch guileless held 
The tenor of his way. 1 Death. Line 108. 

One murder made a villain, 
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged 
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. 2 

Ibid. Line 154. 

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. 

Ibtd, Line 178. 
Teach him how to live, 
And oh ! still harder lesson, how to die. 3 

Ibid. Line 316. 

1 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

Gray, Elegy , Stanza 19. 
2 Cf. Young, p. 267. 

8 There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 

Tickell, On the Death of Addison. 



Churchill. — Bickerstaff. 357 



CHARLES CHURCHILL. T731-1764. 
He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. 

The Rosciad. Line 322. 
But, spite of all the criticising elves, 
Those who would make us feel — must feel them- 
selves. 1 Ibid. Line 861. 

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 
Epistle to William Hogarth. 
Be England what she will, 
With all her faults she is my country still. 

The Farewell. 
Apt alliteration's artful aid. 

Prophecy of Fa??iine. 

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, 
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. 

The Author. 



ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. CVrar 1735- 1787. 

Hope ! thou nurse of young desire. 

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1. 

There was a jolly miller once, 

Lived on the river Dee \ 
He work'd and sung from morn till night : 

No lark more blithe than he. 

Ibid. Act i. Sc 2. 

1 Si vis me flere, dolendum est 
Primum ipsi tibi. — Horace, Ars Toetica, 102. 



358 Gibbon. 

[Bickerstaff continued. 

And this the burthen of his song 

For ever used to be : — 
I care for nobody, no, not I, 

If no one cares for me. 1 ibid. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Young fellows will be young fellows. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Ay, do despise me. I 'm the prouder for it ; 
I like to be despised. 

The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc, 1. 



EDWARD GIBBON. 1737 -1794. 

History, which is, indeed, little more than the 
register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of 
mankind. 2 

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. iii. 

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a 
hand to execute. 3 ibid. Ch. xlviii. 

1 If naebody care for me, 
I '11 care for naebody. 

Burns, / hae a Wife o y my Ain. 

2 L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des mal- 
heurs. — Voltaire, L" Ingcnu, Ch. x. 

3 Heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the 
hand to execute. — Junius, Letter xxxvii., Feb. 14, 1770. 



Beattie. 359 

JAMES BEATTIE. 1735-1803. 

Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines 
afar ? The Minstrel Book i. St. I. 

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. 

Ibid. Book i. St 25. 

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down ; 
Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, 
With here and there a violet bestrewn, 
Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave ; 
And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my 
grave ! Ibid. Book ii. St. 17. 

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, 
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, 
When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, 
And naught but the nightingale's song in the 
grove. The Hermit. 

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. 

Ibid. 
But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn ? 
O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave ? 

Ibid. 
By the glare of false science betray'd, 
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. 

Ibid. 
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. 

Ibid. 
How hard their lot who neither won nor lost. 
Epigram. The Bucks had dined. 



360 Cowper. 



WILLIAM COWPER. 1731-1800. 

United yet divided, twain at once. 

So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne. 1 

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 77. 

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, 

Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 

The tone of languid Nature. ibid. Line 181. 

The earth was made so various, that the mind 

Of desultory man, studious of change, 

And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. 

Ibid. Line 506. 

God made the country, and man made the town. 2 

Ibid. Line 749. 

O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 3 
Some boundless contiguity of shade, 
Where rumour of oppression and deceit, 
Of unsuccessful or successful war, 
Might never reach me more. 

Book ii. The Timepiece. Line I. 

1 Two Kings of Brentford, from Buckingham's play of 
The Rehearsal. 

2 God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. 

Cowley, The Garden. Essay v. 

God Almighty first planted a garden. — Bacon, Essays. 
Of Gardens. 

Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes. 

Varro, Res Rom. 3, 1. 

3 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of 
wayfaring men. — Jeremiah ix. 2. 



Cowper. 361 

Mountains interpos'd 
Make enemies of nations who had else, 
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 17. 
I would not have a slave to till my ground, 
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth 
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. 

Ibid. Line 29. 

Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Receive our air, that moment they are free ; 
They touch our country and their shackles fall. 1 

Ibid. Li7ie 40. 

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, 
My country ! 2 ibid. Line 206. 

Presume to lay their hand upon the ark 
Of her magnificent and awful cause. 

Lb id. Line 231. 
Praise enough 
To fill the ambition of a private man, 
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. 

Ibid. Line 235. 
There is a pleasure in poetic pains 
Which only poets know. 3 ibid. line 285. 

1 Servi peregrini, ut primum Gallias fines penetraverint 
eodem momento liberi sunt. — Bodinus, Liber i. c. 5. 
2 Be England what she will, 
With all her faults she is my country still. 

Churchill, The Farewell. 
3 There is a pleasure sure 
In being mad which none but madmen know. 

Dryden, Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. I. 
16 



362 Cowper. 

Transforms old print 
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes 
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. 

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 364. 

Reading what they never wrote, 
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, 
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. 

Ibid. Line 411. 
Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. 

Ibid. Line 444. 

Variety 's the very spice of life, 

That gives it all its flavour. Ibid. Line 606. 

She that asks 
Her dear five hundred friends, ibid. Line 642. 

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss 
Of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall ! 

Book iii. The Garden. Line 41. 

Great contest follows, and much learned dust. 

Ibid. Line 161. 
From reveries so airy, from the toil 
Of dropping buckets into empty wells, 
And growing old in drawing nothing up. 

Ibid. Line 188. 

How various his employments, whom the world 
Calls idle ; and who justly in return 
Esteems that busy world an idler too ! 

Ibid. Line 352. 

Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too. 

Line 566. 



Cowper. 363 

I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, 
And give them voice and utterance once again. 
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 1 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 

The Task. Book iv. Winter Evening. Line 34. 

Which not even critics criticise. 

Ibid. Line 51. 

And Katerfelto, with his hair on end 
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 
'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, 
To peep at such a world, — to see the stir 
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. 

Ibid. Line 86. 

While fancy, like the finger of a clock, 
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 

Ibid. Line 118. 

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year. 

Ibid. Line 120. 

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, 
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, 
And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. 

Ibid. Line 217. 

1 [Tar-water] is of a nature so mild and benign and pro- 
portioned to the human constitution, as to warm without 
heating, to cheer but not inebriate. — Bishop Berkeley, 
Sir is, par. 217. 



364 Cowper. 

Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. 

The Task. Book iv. Winter Evening. Lme 510. 

Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. 

Ibid. Line 516. 
The Frenchman's darling. 1 

Ibid. Line 765. 

But war 's a game which, were their«subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

Book v. Winter Morning Walk. Line 187. 

The beggarly last doit. ibid. Line 316. 

As dreadful as the Manichean god, 
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 

Ibid. Liiie 444. 

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. 

Ibid. Line 733. 

With filial confidence inspired, 
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, 
And smiling say, " My Father made them all ! " 

Ibid. Line 745. 

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds \ 
And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleased 
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave ; 
Some chord in unison with what we hear 
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. 
How soft the music of those village bells, 
Falling at intervals upon the ear 
In cadence sweet ! 

Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1. 

1 It was Cowper who gave this now common name to 
the Mignonette. 



Cowper. 365 

The Task continued.] 

Here the heart 
May give a useful lesson to the head, 
And Learning wiser grow without his books. 
Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 85. 

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so 

much ; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 
Books are not seldom talismans and spells. 

Ibid. Line 96. 

Some to the fascination of a name 
Surrender judgment hoodwink'd. 

Ibid. Line 100. 

I would not enter on my list of friends 
(Though graced with polish' d manners and fine 

sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility) the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 

Ibid. Line 560. 

An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, 
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 

Epistle to Joseph Hill. 

Shine by the side of every path we tread 
With such a lustre, he that runs may read. 1 

Tirocinium. Line 79. 

Absence of occupation is not rest, 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. 

Retirement. Li7ie 623. 

3 Cf. Habakkuk ii. 2. 



366 Cowper. 

An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; 
As useless if it goes as if it stands. 

Retirement. Line 681. 

Built God a church, and laughed his word to 

SCOrn. Ibid. Line 688. 

I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, 
How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! 
But grant me still a friend in my retreat, 
Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. 

Ibid. Line 739. 
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. 

Table Talk. Line 28. 

No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show, 
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 

Ibid. Line 260. 

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, 
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. 

Truth. Line 327. 
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. 

The Progress of Error. Line 415. 
A kick that scarce would move a horse 

May kill a SOUnd divine. The Yearly Distress. 

O that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd 
With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. 

The son of parents passed into the skies. 

Ibid. 

There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark ! 

And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. 

On observing some Names of Little Note. 



Cowper. 367 

A fool must now and then be right by chance. 

Conversation. Line 96. 

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man 
Will not affront me, and no other can. 

Ibid. Line 193. 
I cannot talk with civet in the room, 
A tine puss-gentleman that ? s all perfume. 

Ibid. Line 283. 
The solemn fop ; significant and budge • 
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. 1 

Ibid. Line 299. 
His wit invites you by his looks to come, 
But, when you knock, it never is at home. 2 

Ibid. Line 303. 

1 If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find 
the best king of good fellows. — Shakespeare, King Henry 
V. Act v. Sc. 2. 

This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among 
wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — Boswell's 
Johnson, Vol. ii. p. 13. An. 1754. 

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Pope, 
Dunciad, Book iv. Line 92. 

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no 
one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among 
soldiers. — Walter Scott, Life of Napoleon. 

He (Steele) was a rake among scholars, and a scholar 
among rakes. — Macaulay, Review of Aikin's Life of Ad- 
dison. 

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, 
a man of letters amongst men of the world. — Macaulay, 
Life and Writings of Sir William Teniple. 

2 You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; 
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. 

Pope, Epigram. 



368 Cozvper. 

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, 

Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. 1 

Conversation. Line 357. 
That, though on pleasure she was bent, 
She had a frugal mind. 

History of yohn Gilpin. 

A hat not much the worse for wear.* ibid. 

Now let us sing„ Long live the king, 

And Gilpin long live he ; 
And when he next doth ride abroad, 

May I be there to see ! ibid. 

Toll for the brave ! 

The brave that are no more ! 
All sunk beneath the wave, 

Fast by their native shore ! 

On the Loss of the Royal George. 

Misses ! the tale that I relate 

This lesson seems to carry, — 
Choose not alone a proper mate, 
But proper time to marry. 

Pairing Time Anticipated. 
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! 

How sweet their memory still ! 
But they have left an aching void 
The world can never fill. 

Walking with God. 

1 Love in your hearts as idly burns 
As fire in antique Roman urns. 

Butler, Hudibras, Part ii. Canto i. 309. 
The story of the lamp which was supposed to have 
burned above 1,550 years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the 
daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others. 



Cowper. 369 

And Satan trembles when he sees 
The weakest saint upon his knees. 

Exhortation to Prayer. 
God moves in a mysterious way 

His wonders to perform ; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea 

And rides upon the storm. 

Light Shining out of Darkness. 
Behind a frowning providence 

He hides a shining face. ibid. 

I am monarch of all I survey, 

My right there is none to dispute. 

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. 

O Solitude ! where are the charms 

That sages have seen in thy face ? ibid. 

But the sound of the church-going bell 
Those valleys and rocks never heard, 

Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, 

Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. ibid. 

How fleet is a glance of the mind ! 

Compared with the speed of its flight, 
The tempest itself lags behind, 

And the swift-winged arrows of light, ibid. 

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. 
To an Afflicted Protesta?it Lady. 

'Tis Providence alone secures 

In every change both mine and yours. 

A Fable. (Moral) 
16* x 



370 Cowper. 

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, 
And proves, by thumping on your back, 1 

His sense of your great merit, 2 
Is such a friend, that one had need 
Be very much his friend indeed 

To pardon, or to bear it. On Friendship. 

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. 

The Needless Alarm. (Moral.) 

He sees that this great roundabout, 
The world, with all its motley rout, 

Church, army, physic, law, 
Its customs and its businesses, 
Is no concern at all of his, 

And says — what says he ? — Caw. 

The Jackdaw. 

For \ is a truth well known to most, 
That whatsoever thing is lost, 
We seek it, ere it come to light, 
In every cranny but the right. 

The Retired Cat. 

But strive still to be a man before your mother. 3 
Motto of No. iii. Connoisseur. 

1 And friend received with thumps upon the back. 

Young, Universal Passion. 

2 Var. " How he esteems your merit." 

8 Thou wilt scarce be a man before fhy mother. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, Act ii. Sc. 2. 



Darwin. — Thurlow. 371 



ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802. 

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar 
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; 
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear 
The flying-chariot through the field of air. 

The Botanic Garden. Part i. Ch. I. Line 289. 

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, 
No gem, that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, 
Not the bright stars, which Night's blue arch 

adorn, 
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, 
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows 
Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. 
Ibid. Part ii. The Loves of the Plants. Canto hi. Line 459. 



LORD THURLOW. 1732 -1806. 
The accident of an accident. 

Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. 
Butler's Reminiscences, 1. 142. 

When I forget my sovereign, may my God 

forget me. 1 27 Pari. Hist. 680 ; Ann. Reg. 1789. 

1 Whereupon Wilkes, seated upon the foot of the throne, 
and who had known him long and well, is reported to 
have said, somewhat coarsely but not unhappily it must 
be allowed, " Forget you ! He '11 see you d — d first." — 
Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of Geo. III. Thurlow. 



372 Greville, — Mickle. — Moss. 



MRS. GREVILLE. 1 17 17—. 

Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, 

Which, like the needle true, 
Turns at the touch of joy or woe, 

But, turning, trembles too. 

A Prayer for Indifference, 



W. J. MICKLE. 1734 -1788. 

For there 's nae luck about the house, 

There f s nae luck at a' ; 
There 's little pleasure in the house 

When our gudeman 's awa'. 

The Mariner's Wife, 
His very foot has music in 't 

As he comes up the stairs. ibid. 



THOMAS MOSS. Or** 1740- 1808. 

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to 
your door, 
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; 
Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your 
Store. The Beggar, 

A pampered menial drove me from the door. 

Ibid. 
1 The pretty Fanny Macartney. 

Walpole's Me?noirs. 



Langhome. — Wolcot. 373 



JOHN LANGHORNE. 1735-1779. 

Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, 
Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain ; 
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew ; 
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, 
Gave the sad presage of his future years, 
The child of misery, baptized in tears. 1 

The Country Justice. Part i. 



JOHN WOLCOT. 1738-1819. 

What rage for fame attends both great and small ! 
Better be d — d than mentioned not at all. 

To the Royal Academicians. 

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, 
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 

Expostulatory Odes. Ode xv. 

A fellow in a market town, 

Most musical, cried razors up and down. 

Farewell Odes. Ode iii. 

1 This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow, on 
the field of battle, was made the subject of a print by 
Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines 
of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott has mentioned, that the 
only time he saw Burns, this picture was in the room. 
Burns shed tears over it ; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, 
was the only person present who could tell him where 
the lines were to be found. — Chambers's Cyc. of Litera- 
ture, Vol. ii. p. 10. 



374 Dickinson, — Adams. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732 -1799. 

To be prepared for war is one of the most 
effectual means of preserving peace. 1 

Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, 1 790. 



JOHN DICKINSON. 1732 -1808. 

Then join in hand, brave Americans all ; 
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 

The Liberty Song. (1768.) 



JOHN ADAMS. 1735-1826. 

The second day of July, 1776, will be the 
most memorable epocha in the history of Amer- 
ica. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated 
by succeeding generations as the great anniver- 
sary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, 
as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of 
devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be sol- 
emnized with pomp and parade, with shows, 
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illumi- 
nations, from one end of this continent to the 
other, from this time forward for evermore. 

Letter to Mrs. Adams, July 3, 1776. 

1 Qui desiderat pacem praeparet helium. 

Vegetius, Rei Mil. 3. Prolog. 



Henry. — Paine. 375 



PATRICK HENRY. 1736- 1799. 

Csesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his 
Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Trea- 
son ! " cried the speaker) — may profit by their 
example. If this be treason, make the most of 
it. Speech, 1765. 

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be 
purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? 
Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what 
course others may take ; but, as for me, give me 
liberty, or give me death ! speech, March, 1775. 



THOMAS PAINE. 1737 -1809. 

And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke) 
has been that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell 

like the Stick. Letter to the Addressers. 

These are the times that try men's souls. 

The American Crisis. No. I. 
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so 
nearly related, that it is difficult to class them 
separately. One step above the sublime makes 
the ridiculous, and one step above the ridicu- 
lous makes the sublime again. 1 

Age of Reason. Pa?'t ii. ad fin. {note.) 

1 Probably the original of Napoleon's celebrated mot, 
" Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." 



376 Jefferson. 



THOMAS JEFFERSON. 1743 -1826. 

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at 
the same time. 

Summary View of the Rights of British America. 

When, in the course of human events, it be- 
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the 
political bands which have connected them with 
another, and to assume among the powers of the 
earth the separate and equal station to which 
the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle 
them, a decent respect to the opinions of man- 
kind requires that they should declare the causes 
which impel them to the separation. 

A Dedaratio7i by the Representatives of the United 
States of America. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident : that 
all men are created equal ; that they are en- 
dowed by their Creator with inalienable rights : 
that among these are life, liberty, and the pur- 
suit of happiness. ibid. 

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, 
our fortunes, and our sacred honour. ibid. 

Error of opinion may be tolerated where rea- 
son is left free to combat it. Inaugural Address. 

Equal and exact justice to all men, of what- 
ever state or persuasion, religious or political ; 
peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all 



Stow ell. 377 

Jefferson continued.] 

nations, — entangling alliances with none ■ the 
support of the State governments in all their 
rights, as the most competent administrations 
for our domestic concerns, and the surest bul- 
warks against anti-republican tendencies ; the 
preservation of the General Government in its 
whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor 
of our peace at home and safety abroad ; . . . . 
freedom of religion ; freedom of the press ; free- 
dom of person under the protection of habeas 
corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected, 
— these principles form the bright constellation 
which has gone before us, and guided our steps 
through an age of revolution and reformation. 

Ibid. 

If a due participation of office is a matter of 
right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those 
by death are few : by resignation none. 1 
Letter to a Com?nittee of the Merchants of New Haven, 1801. 



LORD STOWELL. 1745- 1836. 

A dinner lubricates business. 

Boswell's Johnson, viii. 6j, n. 

The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. 
Campbell's Cha?icellors, Vol. x. Ch. 212. 

1 Usually quoted, " Few die, and none resign." 



378 Quincy. — Barbauld. 



JOSIAH QUINCY (Junior). 1744-1775. 

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will 
threats of a " halter" intimidate. For, under 
God, we are determined that, wheresoever, when- 
soever, or howsoever, we shall be called to make 
our exit, we will die freemen. 

Observations on the Boston Port BUI, 1774. 



MRS. BARBAULD. 1743 -1825. 

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, 
And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 

The Invitation* 

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, 
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. 1 
A Summer's Evening Meditation. 

Life ! we Ve been long together 
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; 
Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; 
Then steal away, give little warning, 
Choose thine own time ; 
Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime 
Bid me " Good morning.'' Life. 

1 Often ascribed to Young. 



Thrale. — Dibdin. — More. 3 79 



MRS. THRALE. 1739- 182 1. 

The tree of deepest root is found 
Least willing still to quit the ground ; 
'T was therefore said, by ancient sages, 

That love of life increased with years 
So much, that in our latter stages, 
When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, 

The greatest love of life appears. 

Three Warnings* 



CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745- 1814. 

There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, 
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. 

Poor Jack. 

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? 

He was all for love and a little for the bottle. 

Captain Wattle and Miss Roe. 



HANNAH MORE. 1745-1833. 

To those who know thee not, no words can paint ! 
And those who know thee know all words are 

faint ! Sensibility. 

In men this blunder still you find, 

All think their little set mankind. 

Florio. Part i. 

Small habits well pursued betimes 

May reach the dignity of crimes. ibid. 



380 yones. — Logan. 



SIR WILLIAM JONES. 1746- 1794. 

Go boldly forth, my simple lay, 
Whose accents flow with artless ease, 
Like orient pearls at random strung. 

A Persian Song of Hafiz. 
On parent knees, a naked new-born child 
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; 
So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, 
Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee 
weep. From the Persian. 

What constitutes a state ? 

Men who their duties know, 
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. 

And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 

O'er thrones and globes elate, 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 

Ode in Imitation of Alcceus. 

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, 
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. 1 



JOHN LOGAN. 1748- 1788. 

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, 

No winter in thy year. To the Cuckoo. 

1 Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, 
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. 

Translation of lines quoted by Sir Edward Coke. 



Morris. — Trumbull. 381 



CHARLES MORRIS. 1739 -1832. 

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations ; 
Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations. 1 
Billy Pitt and the Farmer. 

Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall. 

Town and Country. 



JOHN TRUMBULL. 1750-1831. 

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, 
To see what is not to be seen. 

McFingaL Canto i. Line 6 J. 

But as some muskets so contrive it, 
As oft to miss the mark they drive at, 
And though well aimed at duck or plover, 
Bear wide, and kick their owners over. 

Canto i. Line 93. 

As though there were a tie, 
And obligation to posterity. 
We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. 
What has posterity done for us, 
That we, lest they their rights should lose, 
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose. 

Canto ii. Line 121. 
No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
With good opinion of the law. 

Canto iii. Liite 489. 

1 From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, Vol. ii. 
p. 250. 



382 Sheridan. 

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 
1751 - 1816. 

A progeny of learning. The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. 

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at 
once, are you ? Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it 
stands ; we should only spoil it by trying to ex- 
plain it. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of 
the Nile. ibid. Act v. Sc. 3. 

My valour is certainly going ! it is sneaking 
off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm 
of my hands. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 3. 

I own the soft impeachment. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Steal ! to be sure they may, and, egad, serve 
your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, 
— disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. 1 

The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1. 

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. 

Ibid. Act ii. *SV. I. 

1 Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse ; 
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, 
Defacing first, then claiming for his own. 

Churchill, The Apology, Line 233. 



Sheridan. 383 

Where they do agree on the stage, their una- 
nimity is wonderful. The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

An oyster may be crossed in love. 

Ibid. Act iii. 

You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where 
a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a 
meadow of margin. 

School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. I. 

I leave my character behind me. 

Ibid. Actii. Sc. 2. 

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen ; 

Here 's to the widow of fifty ; 
Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, 
And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty. 
Let the toast pass \ 
Drink to the lass; 
I '11 warrant she '11 prove an excuse for the glass. 

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinherit- 
ing countenance. ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I ne'er could any lustre see 

In eyes that would not look on me \ 

I ne'er saw nectar on a lip 

But where my own did hope to sip. 

The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, 
I ne'er could injure you. 

Ibid. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry 
than it has with politics. ibid. Act ii. Sc. 4. 



384 Crabbe. 

[Sheridan continued. 

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted 
to his memory for his jests and to his imagina- 
tion for his facts. 1 

Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. (Sheridaniana.) 

You write with ease to show your breeding, 

But easy writing 's curst hard reading. 

Clio's Protest. Moore's Life of Sheridan. Vol. i. /. 155. 



GEORGE CRABBE. 1754- 1832. 

Oh ! rather give me commentators plain, 
Who with no deep researches vex the brain ; 
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, 
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. 2 
The Parish Register. Pt. i. Introduc. 
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired ; 
Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired ; 
The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, 
And ease of heart her every look convey'd. 

Ibid. Pt. ii. Marriages. 
In this fool's paradise 3 he drank delight. 

The Borough. Letter xii. Players. 
Books cannot always please, however good ; 
Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

Ibid. Letter xxiv. Schools. 
In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; 
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. 

The Birth of Flattery. 

1 On peut dire que son esprit brille aux depens de sa 
memoire. — Le Sage, Gil Bias, Livre iii. Ch. xi. 

2 Cf. Young, Ante, p. 267. 

3 Cf. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book iii. Line 496. 



Bums. 385 



ROBERT BURNS. 1759 -1796. 

Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, 
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 

Tarn (yShanter. 

Ah gentle dames ! it gars me greet, 

To think how monie counsels sweet, 

How monie lengthened sage advices, 

The husband frae the wife despises. ibid. 

His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; 

Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither — 

They had been fou for weeks thegither. ibid. 

The landlady and Tarn grew gracious 

Wi favours secret, sweet, and precious. ibid. 

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus, ibid. 

Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, 
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Ibid. 

But pleasures are like poppies spread, 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; 
Or, like the snow-fall in the river, 
A moment white, then melts for ever. ibid. 

That hour, o' night's black arch the keys tan e. 

Ibid. 

Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn, 

What dangers thou canst make us scorn ! ibid. 

17 Y 



386 Bums. 

As Tammie gloured, amazed and curious, 
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 

Tam O" 1 Shanter. 
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; 
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss ! 

A Winter's Night. 
Then gently scan your brother man, 

Still gentler, sister woman \ 
Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, 
To step aside is human. 

Address to the Unco Guid. 
What 's done we partly may compute, 
But know not what 's resisted. ibid. 

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, 

I rede ye tent it ; 
A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, 

And, faith, he '11 prent it. 
On Captain Grose ^s Peregrinations through Scotland. 

O wad some power the giftie gie us, 
To see oursels as others see us ! 
It wad frae monie a blunder free us, 

And foolish notion. To a Louse. 
The best laid schemes o' mice and men 

Gang aft a-gley ; 
And leave us naught but grief and pain 

For promised joy. To a Mouse. 

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate 

Full on thy bloom. 1 To a Moitntain Daisy. 

1 Final Ruin fiercely drives 
Her ploughshare o'er creation. 

Young, Night Thoughts, ix. Line 167. 



Bums. 387 

Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 
Perhaps turn out a sermon. 

Epistle to a Young Friend. 

I waive the quantum o' the sin, 

The hazard of concealing ; 
But, och ! it hardens a' within, 

And petrifies the feeling S ibid. 

The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip 
To haud the wretch in order ; 

But wdiere ye feel your honour grip, 
Let that aye be your border. ibid. 

An Atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange 

For Deity offended ! 

Ibid. 

And may you better reck the rede} 

Than ever did th' adviser ! ibid. 

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, 
And all my frowzy couch in sorrow steep. 2 

Epistle from Esopns to Maria. 

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. 

The Twa Dogs. 

1 And recks not his own rede. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. 

2 Durance vile. — W. Kenrick (1766), FalstajjTs Wed- 
ding, Act i. Sc. 2. 

It will not be amiss to take a view of the effects of this 
royal servitude and vile durance, which was so deplored 
in the reign of the last monarch. — Burke, Thoughts on 
the Present Discontents. 



388 Burns. 

O Life ! how pleasant in thy morning, 
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! 
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, 

We frisk away, 
Like school-boys at th' expected warning, 

To joy and play. 

Epistle to James Smith. 

O life ! thou art a galling load, 
Along a rough, a weary road, 

To wretches SUCh as I ! Despondency. 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And never brought to min' ? 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And days o' lang syne ? Auld Lang Syne. 

Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, 

By passion driven ; 
But yet the light that led astray 

Was light from heaven. The Vision. 

And, like a passing thought, she fled 

In light away. ibid. 

Now 's the day, and now 's the hour, 
See the front o' battle lour. Bannockbum. 

Liberty 's in every blow ! 

Let us do or die. 1 ibid. 

Man's inhumanity to man 

Makes countless thousands mourn. 

Man was made to mourn. 

1 See Proverbs, p. 607. 



Burns. 389 

Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears 
Her noblest work she classes, O ; 

Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, 
And then she made the lasses, O ! x 

Green grow the Rashes, 

Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 

Death and Dr. Hornbook. 
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man 's the gowd for a' that. 2 

Is there for Honest Poverty. 

A prince can make a belted knight, 3 

A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 
But an honest man 's aboon his might, 

Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. ibid. 

But to see her was to love her, 
Love but her, and love for ever. 

Song. Ae Fond Kiss. 

Had we never loved sae kindly, 

Had we never loved sae blindly, 

Never met or never parted, 

We had ne'er been broken-hearted ! 

Ibid. 

1 Man was made when Nature was 
But an apprentice, but woman when she 
Was a skilful mistress of her art. 

Cupid's Whirligig. 1607. 

2 I weigh the man, not his title ; 't is not the king's 
stamp can make the metal better. — Wycherley, The. 
Plaindealer, Act\. Sc. 1. 

3 Of the king's creation you may be ; but he who makes 
a Count ne'er made a man. — Southerne, Sir Anthony 
Love, Act ii. Sc. 1. 



390 Burns. 

To see her is to love her, 
And love but her for ever. 

Bonny Lesley. 

O, my luve 's like a red, red rose, 
That 's newly sprung in June, 

O, my luve 's like the melodie, 
That 's sweetly played in tune. 

Song. A Red, Red Rose. 

It 's guid to be merry and wise, 

It 's guid to be honest and true, 

It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, 

And bide by the buff and the blue. 

Here 9 s a health to the?n that f s awa. 

'T is sweeter for thee despairing, 

Than aught in the world beside, — Jessy ! 

Jessy. 

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel 's the new. 

The Cotter's Saturday Night. 

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the 
evening gale. ibid. 

He wales a portion with judicious care ; 
And " Let us worship God ! " he says, with solemn 
air. ibid. 

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur 
springs, 
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : 
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 
"An honest man 's the noblest work of God." 

Ibid 



Kemble. — Barrington. — Pitt. 391 



J. P. KEMBLE. 1757-1823. 

I give thee all — I can no more, 

Tho' poor the offering be ; 
My heart and lute are all the store 

That I can bring to thee. 

Lodoiska. Act in. Sc. I. 

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, 
But — why did you kick me down stairs? 

The Panel! Acti. Sc. i. 



GEORGE BARRINGTON. 1755 . 

True patriots all ; for be it understood 
We left our country for our country's good. 2 

Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at 
New South Wales i Jan. 16, 1796. Harrington's 
" New South Wales," p. 152. 



WILLIAM PITT. 1759-1806. 

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies ; and all 
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. 

From The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi. 

1 Altered from Bickerstaff's 'Th Well it's no Worse. 
The lines are also found in Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive 
Pieces, Vol. i. p. 15. 

2 'T was for the good of my country that I should be 
abroad. — Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem, Act iii. Sc. 2. 



39 2 Colman. — Hurdis. 



GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER. 
1762 - 1836. 

On their own merits modest men are dumb. 

Epilogue to the Heir at Law. 

And what 's impossible can't be, 
And never, never comes to pass. 

The Maid of the Moor. 

Three stories high, long, dull, and old, 

As great lords' stories often are. ibid. 

Like two single gentlemen, rolled into one. 

Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. 

But when ill indeed, 
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. 

Ibid. 
When taken 

To be well shaken. 

The Newcastle Apothecary. 

Thank you, good sir, I owe you one. 

The Poor Gentleman. Act i. Sc. 2. 

O Miss Bailey, 
Unfortunate Miss Bailey ! 

Love laughs at Locksmiths. Act ii. Song. 



JAMES HURDIS. 1763-1801. 

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. 

The Village Curate. 



Pinckney. — Lee. — Everett. 393 

CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. 

1746-1825. 

Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. 

When Ambassador to the French Republic, 1 796. 



HENRY LEE. 1756-1816. 

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first 
in peace, and first in the hearts of his country- 
men. Eulogy on Washington. Delivered by Gen. Lee, 
Dec. 26, 1799. 1 Memoirs of Lee. 



DAVID EVERETT. 1769-1813. 

You 'd scarce expect one of my age 
To speak in public on the stage \ 
And if I chance to fall below 
Demosthenes or Cicero, 
Don't view me with a critic's eye, 
But pass my imperfections by. 
Large streams from little fountains flow, 
Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 

Lines written for a School Declamation. 

1 To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, 
and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. — From the 
Resolutions presented to the House op Representatives •, on the 
Death of General Washington, December, 1799. Alar- 
shalVs Life of Washmgton. 
17* 



394 Bar ere. — Foucke. — Morton. 



MADAME ROLAND. 1754- 1793. 

O liberty ! liberty ! how many crimes are 
committed in thy name! (I793-) 



BERTRAND BARERE. 1755-1841. 

The tree of liberty only grows w T hen watered 
by the blood of tyrants. 1 

Speech iji the Convention Nationals 1792. 



JOSEPH FOUCHE. 1763 -1820. 

It is more than a crime, it is a political fault ; 2 
words which I record because they have been 
repeated and attributed to others. 

Memoirs of Fouche. 



THOMAS MORTON. 1764- 1838. 

What will Mrs. Grundy say ? 

Speed the Plough, Act i. Sc. I. 
Push on — keep moving. 

A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. I. 

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise 
indeed. Ibid > Act v - Sc - 2 - 

1 L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des 
tyrans. 

2 Commonly quoted, " It is worse than a crime, it is a 
blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand. 



Ferriar. — Mackintosh. 395 



JOHN FERRIAR. 1764-1815. 

Illustrations of Sterne. 

The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold. 

Bibliomania. Line 6. 

Now cheaply bought — for thrice their weight in 

gold. Ibid. Line 65. 

Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed 
Of knightly counsel, and heroic deed). 

Ibid. Line 121. 

How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold 
The small, rare volume, black with tarnish'd 
gold ! Ibid. Line 137. 



SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. 1765-1832. 
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. 

Vindicice Gallic a. 

The commons, faithful to their system, re- 
mained in a wise and masterly inactivity, ibid. 

Disciplined inaction. 

Causes of the Revolution of 1688, ch. vii. 

The frivolous work of polished idleness. 

Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on 
Thomas Brown. 



396 Hall. — Kotzebue. — Brydges. 



ROBERT HALL. 1764- 1831. 

His imperial fancy has laid all nature under 
tribute, and has collected riches from every 
scene of the creation and every walk of art. 
(Of Burke.) Apology for the Freedom of the Press. 

He might be a very clever man by nature, 
for aught I know, but he laid so many books 
upon his head that his brains could not move. 
(Of Kippis.) From Gregory's Life of Hall. 

Call things by their right names Glass 

of brandy and water ! That is the current, but 
not the appropriate name ; ask for a glass of 
liquid fire and distilled damnation. ibid. 



KOTZEBUE. 1761-1819. 

There is another and a better world. 

The Stranger. Act i. Sc. 1. Trans, by A. Schink, 
London, 1 799. 



SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. 
1762 - 1837. 

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. 

Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott. 



Adams, — Jackson. — Qirincy. 397 



JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767 -1848. 

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, 
For freedom only deals the deadly blow ; 
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, 
For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade. 1 

Written in an Album, 1842. 



ANDREW JACKSON. 1767 -1845. 
Our Federal Union : It must be preserved. 

Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 
1830. Benton's Thirty Years' 1 View. i. 148. 



JOSIAH QUINCY. 1772 -1864. 

If this bill (for the admission of Orleans terri- 
tory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion 
that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union ; 
that it will free the States from their moral obli- 
gation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it 
will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare 
for a separation, amicably if they can, violently 
if they must. 2 

Abridged Cong. Debates ; Jan. 14, 181 1. Vol. iv. p. 327. 

1 Manus haec inimica tyrannis 
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. 

Algernon Sidney. 
2 The gentleman (Mr. Quincy) cannot have forgotten 
his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this 
House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." — 
Henry Clay, Speech, Jan. 8, 1813. 



398 Canning. 



GEORGE CANNING. 1770- 1827. 

Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. 
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife- Grinder. 

I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee d — d first. 

Ibid. 

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides 
The Derby dilly, carrying Three Insides. 

The Loves of the Triangles. Line 1 78.* 

A sudden thought strikes me, — let us swear 
an eternal friendship. 

Lbid. The Rovers. Act i. St. I. 

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, 
Black 's not so black ; — nor white so very white. 

New Morality -, xxxvi. 

Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet, — perhaps may turn his blow ; 
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can 

send, 
Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend ! 

Ibid. 

I called the New World into existence to re- 
dress the balance of the old. 

The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.) 

No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm. 
The Pilot that weathered the Storm. 



Rogers. 399 



SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763 - 1855. 

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, 
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. 

Human Life. 
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease 
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. 

Ibid. 
The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; 
And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before ! ibid. 

Then, never less alone than when alone. 1 ibid. 

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, 
Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone 

before, 2 — 
He gathers round him. ibid. 

Mine be a cot beside the hill ; 

A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; 
A willowy brook, that turns a mill, 

With many a fall, shall linger near, a Wish. 

1 Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, 
nee minus solum, quam quum solus esset. — Cicero, De 
Officiis, Lib. Hi. cap. I. 

2 In a collection of Epitaphs published by Lackington 
& Co. (Vol. ii. p. 143), an epitaph is given " On Mary 
Angell at Stepney, who died 1693," * n which this line 
appears, " Not lost, but gone before." — Notes and Que- 
ries, ~$d Ser. x. p. 404. 



400 Tobin. 

[Rogers continued. 

That very law which moulds a tear 
And bids it trickle from its source, 
That law preserves the earth a sphere 
And guides the planets in their course. 

To a Tear. 
She was good as she was fair. 

None — none on earth above her ! 

As pure in thought as angels are, 

To know her was to love her. 1 Jacqueline. St. i. 

The good are better made by ill, 
As odours crushed are sweeter still. 2 

Ibid. St. 3. 
♦ 

JOHN TOBIN. 1770- 1804. 

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch, 
Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward. 
The Ho7teymooii. Act ii. Sc. I. 

She 's adorned 
Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely, — 
The truest mirror that an honest wife 
Can see her beauty in. ibid. Ad iii. Sc 4. 

1 To see her is to love her, 

And love bat her for ever. Burns, Bonny Lesley. 

1 will, if you please, take you to the house, and intro- 
duce you to its worthy master, whom to know is to love. 
— Sir Humphrey Davy, Salmonia, Eighth Day. 

None knew thee but to love thee. — Halleck, On the 
Death of Drake. 

2 Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when 
they are incensed or crushed. — Bacon, Of Adversity. 



Wordsworth. 401 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1 1770- 1850. 

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, 
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted 
food. Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41. 

Action is transitory — a step, a blow, 

The motion of a muscle — this way or that. 

The Borderers. Act iii. 
The Child is father of the Man. 2 

My Heart Leaps Up. 

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears • 

And humble cares, and delicate fears, 

A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; 

And love, and thought, and joy. 

The Sparrow's Nest. 

The sweetest thing that ever grew 
Beside a human door. 

Lucy Gray. Stanza 2. 

A simple Child, 
That lightly draws its breath, 
And feels its life in every limb, 
What should it know of death ? We are Seven. 

Drink, pretty creature, drink ! The Pet Lamb. 

1 Coleridge said to Wordsworth, "Since Milton I know 
of no poet with so many felicities and unforgetable lines 
and stanzas as you." — Wordsworth's Memoirs, ii. 74. 
2 The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day. 

Milton, Par. Regained, Book iv. L. 220. 



402 Wordsworth. 

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, 
Or reap an acre of his neighbour's corn. 

The Brothers. 
Sweet childish days, that were as long 
As twenty days are now. To a Butterfly. 

A noticeable Man with large gray eyes. 

Stanzas written in Thomson.. 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A maid whom there were none to praise 

And very few to love. 

She dzvelt among the untrodden ways. 

A violet by a mossy stone 

Half hidden from the eye ! 
Fair as a star, when only one 

Is shining in the sky. ibid. 

She lived unknown, and few could know 

When Lucy ceased to be ; 
But she is in her grave, and oh ! 

The difference to me ! ibid. 

A Briton, even in love, should be 
A subject, not a slave ! 

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew. 

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, 

Whose veil is unremoved 
Till heart with heart in concord beats, 

And the lover is beloved. To . 

Minds that have nothing to confer 

Find little to perceive. Yes ! thou art fair. 



Wordsworth. 403 

That kill the bloom before its time ; 
And blanch, without the owner's crime, 
The most resplendent hair. 

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots. 

The bane of all that dread the Devil. 

The Idiot Boy. 

Something between a hindrance and a help. 

Michael. 

Lady of the Mere, 
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. 

A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones. 

But He is risen, a later star of dawn. 

A Morning Exercise. 

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. 

Ibid. 

And he is oft the wisest man, 
Who is not wise at all. 

The Oak and the Broom. 

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, 
When such are wanted. To the Daisy. 

The poet's darling. ibid. 

Thou unassuming Commonplace 

Of Nature. To the same Flower. 

Oft on the dappled turf at ease 
I sit, and play with similes, 
Loose types of things through all degrees. 

Ibid. 



404 Wordsworth. 

Often have I sighed to measure 

By myself a lonely pleasure, 

Sighed to think I read a book, 

Only read, perhaps, by me. 

To the Small Celandine. 
O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, 
Or but a wandering voice ? To the Cuckoo. 

One of those heavenly days that cannot die. 

Nutting. 

She was a Phantom of delight 

When first she gleamed upon my sight. 

She was a phantom of delight. 

But all things else about her drawn 

From May-time and the cheerful Dawn. ibid. 

A Creature not too bright or good 

For human nature's daily food ; 

For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 

Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 

Ibid. 
The reason firm, the temperate will, 

Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; 

A perfect Woman, nobly planned, 

To warn, to comfort, and command. ibid. 

The stars of midnight shall be dear 
To her ; and she shall lean her ear 

In many a secret place 
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, 
And beauty born of murmuring sound 

Shall pass into her face. Three years she grew. 

That inward eye 
Which is the bliss of solitude. 

/ wandered lonely. 



Wordsworth. 405 

The cattle are grazing, 
Their heads never raising ; 
There are forty feeding like one ! 

Written in March. 

A Youth to whom was given 
So much of earth, so much of heaven. Ruth. 

As high as we have mounted in delight 
In our dejection do we sink as low. 

Resolution a,7id Independence. Stanza 4. 

But how can he expect that others should 
Build for him, sow for him, and at his call 
Love him, who for himself will take no heed at 
all ? Ibid. Stanza 6. 

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, 
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; 
Of him who walked in glory and in joy, 
Following his plough, along the mountain-side : 
By our own spirits we are deified : 
We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; 
But thereof come in the end despondency and 
madness. Ibid. Stanza 8. 

Choice word and measured phrase above the 

reach 
Of ordinary men. ibid. Stanza 14. 

And mighty Poets in their misery dead. 

Ibid. Stanza 17. 
" A jolly place," said he, " in times of old ! 
But something ails it now : the spot is cursed." 
Hart-Leap Well. Part ii. 



406 Wordsworth. 

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. 

Hart-Leap Well Partil ' 
Never to blend our pleasure, or our pride, 
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. 

Ibid. 
Sensations sweet, 
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. 

Ti?ite?-n Abbey. 

That best portion of a good man's life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. Ibid. 

That blessed mood, 
In which the burden of the mystery, 
In which the heavy and the weary weight 
Of all this unintelligible world, 
Is lightened. Ibid. 

The fretful stir 
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, 
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. 

Ibid. 

The sounding cataract 

Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, 
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, 
Their colours and their forms, were then to me 
An appetite ; a feeling and a love, 
That had no need of a remoter charm 
By thoughts supplied, nor any interest 
Unborrowed from the eye. ibid. 

But hearing oftentimes 
The still, sad music of humanity. ibid. 



Wordsworth. 407 

A sense sublime 
Of something far more deeply interfused, 
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 
And the round ocean, and the living air, 
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man : 
A motion and a spirit, that impels 
All thinking things, all objects of all thought, 
And rolls through all things. ibid. 

Knowing that Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her. ibid. 

Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 
The dreary intercourse of daily life. ibid. 

Like — but oh ! how different ! 

Yes, it was the Mountain Echo. 

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; 
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! 

To a Skylark. 

1 

The Gods approve 
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. 

Laodamia. 

Mightier far 
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway 
Of magic potent over sun and star, 
Is love, though oft to agony distrest, 
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's 
breast. Ibid. 

He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel 
In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; 



408 Wordsworth, 

No fears to beat away, — no strife to heal, — 
The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 

Laodamia. 

Of all that is most beauteous imaged there 
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, 
An ampler ether, a diviner air, 
And fields invested with purpureal gleams. 

Ibid. 

Yet tears to human suffering are due ; 
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown 
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. 

Ibid. 

But Shapes that come not at an earthly call 
Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Dion. 

Shalt show us how divine a thing 

A Woman may be made. To a Young Lady. 

But an old age serene and bright, 
And lovely as a Lapland night, 

Shall lead thee to thy grave. Ibid. 

Alas ! how little can a moment show 
Of an eye where feeling plays 
In ten thousand dewy rays ; 
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go. 
♦ The Triad. 

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, 
That no philosophy can lift. Prese7itimenl. 

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. 

On the Power of Sound, xii. 



Wordsworth, 409 

There 's something in a flying horse, 
There's something in a huge balloon. 

Peter Bell. Prologue. St. i. 

The common growth of Mother Earth 
Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, 
Her humblest mirth and tears. 

Ibid. St. 27. 
Full twenty times was Peter feared, 
For once that Peter was respected. 

Part i. St. 3. 
A primrose by a river's brim 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more. Part L St. 12. 

The soft blue sky did never melt 
Into his heart ; he never felt 
The witchery of the soft blue sky ! 

Parti. St. 15. 

As if the man had fixed his face, 
In many a solitary place, 
Against the wind and open sky ! 

Part i. St. 26. 1 

The holy time is quiet as a Xun 
Breathless with adoration. 

Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxx. 

1 The original edition (London, 8vo, 1819) had the fol- 
lowing as the fourth stanza from the end of Part I., which 
was omitted in all subsequent editions : — 
Ts it a party in a parlour ? 
Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, — 
Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, 
But as you by their faces see, 
All silent and all damned. 
18 



4io Wordsworth, 

The world is too much with us ; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 
Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii. 

Great God ! I J d rather be 
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; 
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, 
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; 
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 

Ibid. 
To the solid ground 
Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye. 

Ibid. Part i. xxxiv. 

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 
Of Faith, and round the Sufferer's temples bind 
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 

Ibid. Part i. xxxv. 

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! 
The river glideth at his own sweet will ; 
Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; 
And all that mighty heart is lying still ! 

Ibid. Part ii. xxxvi. 
And, when a damp 
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand 
The Thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew 
Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few. 

Ibid. Part ii. i. 
Soft is the music that w r ould charm for ever ; 
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. 

Ibid. Part ii. ix. 



Wordsworth, 4 1 1 

Sweet Mercy ! to the gates of Heaven 
This Minstrel lead, his sins forgiven ; 
The rueful conflict, the heart riven 

With vain endeavour, 
And memory of Earth's bitter leaven, 

Effaced for ever. 

Thoughts suggested 011 the Banks of Nit h. 

The best of what we do and are, 

Just God, forgive. ibid. 

The foaming flood seems motionless as ice ; 

Frozen by distance. Address to Kilchurn Castle. 

May no rude hand deface it, 

And its forlorn hie jacet ! Ellen Irwin. 

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 
That has been, and may be again. 

The Solitary Reaper. 

The music in my heart I bore, 

Long after it was heard no more. ibid. 

Because the good old rule 
Sufficeth them, the simple plan, 
That they should take who have the power, 

And they should keep who can. 

Rob Roy's Grave. 

The Eagle, he was lord above, 

And Rob was lord below. Ibid. 



412 Wordsworth, 

A brotherhood of venerable Trees. 

So7iuet. Composed at Castle. 

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake 
The sweets of Burn-mill meadow ; 
The swan on still St. Mary's Lake 
Float double, swan and shadow! 

Ya7'row Unvisited. 

O for a single hour of that Dundee 

Who on that day the word of onset gave ! 

Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky. 

A remnant of uneasy light. 

The Matron of Jedborongh. 

But thou, that didst appear so fair 

To fond imagination, 
Dost rival in the light of day 

Her delicate creation. Yarrow Visited. 

Men are we, and must grieve when even the 

Shade 
Of that which once was great is passed away. 

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic. 

Thou hast left behind 
Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and 

skies ; 
There 's not a breathing of the common wind 
That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies ; 
Thy friends are exultations, agonies, 
And love, and man's unconquerable mind. 

To Tons saint ISO uverture. 



Wordsworth. 4 1 3 

Two voices are there ; one is of the sea, 
One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice. 
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland, 

Plain living and high thinking are no more. 
The homely beauty of the good old cause 
Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, 
And pure religion breathing household laws. 
Writteii in London, September, 1 802. 

Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart. 

London, 1802. 

So didst thou travel on life's common way, 
In cheerful godliness. ibid. 

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 
That Shakespeare spake • the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. 

Poems dedicated to National Independence. 
Part. i. Sonnet xvi. 

Every gift of noble origin 
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. 

Ibid. Sojinel xx. 

A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules. 

Ibid. Part ii. Sonnet xii. 

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust 
Of servile opportunity to gold. 

Desultory Stanzas. 

That God's most dreaded instrument, 
In working out a pure intent, 



414 Wordsworth. 

Is man — arrayed for mutual slaughter ; 
Yea, Carnage is his daughter. 1 Ode, 1815. 

The sightless Milton, with his hair 
Around his placid temples curled ; 
And Shakespeare at his side, — a freight, 
If clay could think and mind were weight, 
For him who bore the world ! 

The Italian Itinerant. 

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows 
That for oblivion take their daily birth 
From all the fuming vanities of Earth. 

Sky-Prospect, from the Plain of France. 

The monumental pomp of age 
Was with this goodly Personage ; 
A stature undepressed in size, 
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise, 
In open victory o'er the weight 
Of seventy years, to loftier height. 

The While Doe of Rylstone. Canto in. 

Babylon, 
Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, 
Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh 
That would lament her. 

Eccles. Sonnets. Parti, xxv. Missions and Travels. 

1 Altered in later editions by omitting the last two 
lines, the others reading 

But Man is thy most awful instrument, 
In working out a pure intent. 



Wordsworth. 415 

" As thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear 
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide 
Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, 
Into main ocean they, this deed accursed 
An emblem yields to friends and enemies, 
How the bold Teacher's doctrine, sanctified 
By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dis- 
persed." x 

Ecdes. Sonnets. Part ii. xvii. To Wickliffe. 

1 In obedience to the order of the Council of Con- 
stance, (141 5,) the remains of Wickliffe were exhumed 
and burnt to ashes, and these cast into the Swift, a neigh- 
bouring brook running hard by, and " thus this brook hath 
conveyed his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn, Sev- 
ern into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And 
thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doc- 
trine, which now is dispersed all the world over." — Fuller, 
Church History, Sec. ii. B. 4 Par. 53. 

Fox says : " What Heraclitus would not laugh, or 
what Democritus would not weep ? . . . . For though 
they digged up his body, burnt his bones, and drowned 
his ashes, yet the word of God and truth of his doctrine, 
with the fruit and success thereof, they could not burn." 
Book of Martyrs. Vol. i. p. 606, ed. 1641. 
" Some prophet of that day said, 

i The Avon to the Severn runs, 

The Severn to the sea ; 
And Wicklifie's dust shall spread abroad, 
Wide as the waters be.' " 
From Address before the " Sons of New Hampshire" by 
Daniel Webster, 1849. 

These lines are similarly quoted by the Rev. John 
Cumming in the Voices of the Dead, 



41 6 Wordsworth, 

The feather, whence the pen 
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good 

men, 
Dropped from an Angel's wing. 1 

Ibid. Part iii. v. Walton } s Book of Lives, 
Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ibid. 

But who would force the Soul, tilts with a straw 
Against a Champion cased in adamant. 
Ibid. Part iii. vii. Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters. 

Where music dwells 
Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die 
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof 
That they were born for immortality. 

Ibid. Part iii. xliii. Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge. 

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower 
Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour 
Have passed away ; less happy than the one 
That, by the unwilling ploughshare, died to prove 
The tender charm of poetry and love. 

Poems composed in Slimmer ofiS^^. xxxvii. 

Nor less I deem that there are Powers 

Which of themselves our minds impress ; 

That we can feed this mind of ours 

In a wise passiveness. 

Expostulation and Reply. 

1 The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing 
Made of a quill from an Angel's wing. 

Henry Constable, Sonnet. 
Whose noble praise 
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. 

Dorothy Berry, Sonnet. 



Wordsworth . 417 

Up ! up ! my Friend, and quit your books, 
Or surely you '11 grow double : 
Up ! up ! my Friend, and clear your looks ; 
Why all this toil and trouble ? 

The Tables Turned. 

Come forth into the light of things, 

Let Nature be your Teacher. ibid. 

One impulse from a vernal wood 

May teach you more of man, 

Of moral evil and of good, 

Than all the sages can. /bid. 

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts 
Bring sad thoughts to the mind. 

Lines written in Early Spring. 

And 't is my faith that every flower 
Enjoys the air it breathes. • ibid. 

O Reader ! had you in your mind 
Such stores as silent thought can bring, 

gentle Reader ! you would find 

A tale in everything. Simon Lee. 

1 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds 
With coldness still returning ; 

Alas ! the gratitude of men 

Hath oftener left me mourning. ibid. 

One that w r ould peep and botanize 
Upon his mother's grave. 

A Poets Epitaph. St. 5. 
18* AA 



4 1 8 Wordsworth. 

He murmurs near the running brooks 
A music sweeter than their own. 

A Poet's Epitaph. St. 10. 

And you must love him, ere to you 
He will seem worthy of your love. 

Ibid. St. II. 
The harvest of a quiet eye, 

That broods and sleeps on his own heart. 

Ibid. St. 13. 

My eyes are dim with childish tears, 
My heart is idly stirred, 
For the same sound is in my ears 
Which in those days I heard. 

The Fountain. 
A happy youth, and their old age 
Is beautiful and free. ibid. 

And often, glad no more, 

We wear a face of joy, because 

We have been glad of yore. Ibid. 

Maidens withering on the stalk. 

Personal Talk. St. I. 

Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we 

know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and 

blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 

The gentle Lady married to the Moor, 
And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. 

Ibid. St. 3. 



Wordsworth. 419 

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, 
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! 

Personal Talk. St. 4. 

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! 

Ode to Duty. 

A light to guide, a rod 
To check the erring, and reprove. ibid. 

Give unto me, made lowly wise, 
The spirit of self-sacrifice ; 
The confidence of reason give ; 
And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me 
live. ibid. 

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, 
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! 
Turns his necessity to glorious gain. 

Character of the Happy Warrior. 

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves 
Of their bad influence, and their good receives. 

Ibid. 

But who, if he be called upon to face 

Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined 

Great issues, good or bad for humankind, 

Is happy as a Lover. ibid. 

Whom neither shape of anger can dismay, 
Nor thought of tender happiness betray, ibid. 



420 Wordsworth. 

Sad fancies do we then affect, 

In luxury of disrespect 

To our own prodigal excess 

Of too familiar happiness. Ode to Lycoris. 

Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast 
False fires, that others may be lost. 

To the Lady Fleming. 

Small service is true service while it lasts : 

Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn 

not one : 
The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, 
Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 
To a Child. Written in her Album. 

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel 
No self-reproach. The Old Cumberland Beggar. 

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, 

So in the eye of Nature let him die ! ibid. 

To be a Prodigal's Favourite, — then, worse truth, 
A Miser's Pensioner, — behold our lot ! 

The Small Celandine. 

The light that never was on sea or land, 
The consecration, and the Poet's dream. 

Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm. St. 4. 

A Power is passing from the earth. 

Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox. 

But hushed be every thought that springs 
From out the bitterness of things. 

Addressed to Sir G. H. B. 



Wordsworth. 42 1 

Since every mortal power of Coleridge 
Was frozen at its marvellous source ; 
The rapt one, of the god-like forehead, 
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth : 
And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, 
Has vanished from his lonely hearth. 

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg. 

How fast has brother followed brother, 
From sunshine to the sunless land ! ibid. 

But yet I know, where'er I go, 
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. 

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 2. 

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : 
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 

Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
And cometh from afar : 

Not in entire forge tfulness, 

And not in utter darkness, 
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come 

From God, who is our home : 
Heaven lies about us in our infancy. 

At length the Man perceives it die away, 
And fade into the light of common day. 

Ibid. St. 5. 

The thought of our past years in me doth breed 
Perpetual benediction. ibid. St. 9. 

Those obstinate questionings 
Of sense and outward things, 



422 Wo7'dsworth. 

Fallings from us, vanishings ; 

Blank misgivings of a Creature 
Moving about in worlds not realized, 
High instincts before which our mortal Nature 
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. 

Ode. Intimations of l7nmortality . St. 9. 

Truths that wake, 
To perish never. ibid. 

Though inland far we be, 
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea 

Which brought us hither. ibid. 

In years that bring the philosophic mind. 

Ibid. St. 10. 

The Clouds that gather round the setting sun 
Do take a sober colouring from an eye 
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

Ibid. St. ii. 
The vision and the faculty divine ; 

Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. 

The Excursion. Book i. 

The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. 

Ibid. 
That mighty orb of song, 

The divine Milton. ibid. 

The good die first, 
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust 
Burn to the socket. Ibid. 



Wordsworth. 423 

This dull product of a scoffer's pen. 

The Excursion. Book ii. 

With battlements that on their restless fronts 
Bore stars. ibid. 

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop 
Then when we soar. ibid. Book hi. 

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 

Ibid. 
Monastic brotherhood, upon rock 
Aerial. ibid. 

The intellectual power, through words and things, 
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! l 

Ibid. 
Society became my glittering bride, 

And airy hopes my children. ibid. 

There is a luxury in self-dispraise ; 
And inward self-disparagement affords 
To meditative spleen a grateful feast. 

Ibid. Book iv. 
Pan himself, 
The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god ! 

Ibid. 
I have seen 

A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; 
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 

1 Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, 
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. 
The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



424 Wordsworth. 

Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon 
Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard 
Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed 
Mysterious union with its native sea. 

The Excursion. Book vi. 
One in whom persuasion and belief 
Had ripened into faith, and faith become 
A passionate intuition. ibid. 

Spires whose " silent finger points to heaven." * 

Ibid. Book vi. 

Ah ! what a warning for a thoughtless man, 
Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, 
Show to his eye an image of the pangs 
Which it hath witnessed ; render back an echo 
Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod ! 

Ibid. Book vi. 
And, when the stream 
Which overflowed the soul was passed away, 
A consciousness remained that it had left, 
Deposited upon the silent shore 
Of memory, images and precious thoughts 
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed. 

Ibid. Book vii. 
Wisdom married to immortal verse. 2 ibid. 

1 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches 
in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot 
be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger 
to the sky and stars. — Coleridge, The Friejid, No. 14. 
2 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 
Married to immortal verse. 

Milton, L Allegro. 



Wordsworth. 425 

A Man he seems of cheerful yesterdays 
And confident to-morrows. 

The Excursion. Book vii. 

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars • 
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, 
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. 

Ibid. Book ix. 
By happy chance we saw 
A twofold image \ on a grassy bank 
A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood 
Another and the same ! 1 Ibid. 

Another morn 
Risen on mid-noon. 2 The Prelude. Book vi. 

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, 
But to be young was very Heaven ! 

Ibid. Book xi. 

The budding rose above the rose full blown. 

Ibid. 

And thou art long, and lank, and brown, 
As is the ribbed sea sand. 

And listens like a three years' child. 

Lines added to the Ancient Mariner? 

1 Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame. 
And soars and shines another and the same. 

Darwin, The Botanic Gardeit. 
An equivalent of the Latin phrase " alter et idem," 
Joseph Hall's Mundus alter et idem, published circa 1600. 

2 Verbatim from Paradise Lost, Book v. Line 310. 

3 Wordsworth, in his notes to We are Seve?t, claims to 
have written these lines in the Ancient Mariner. 



426 Southey. 



ROBERT SOUTHEY. 1774- 1843. 

How beautiful is night ! 
A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; 
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, 
Breaks the serene of heaven : 
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine 
Rolls through the dark-blue depths. 

Beneath her steady ray 

The desert-circle spreads, 
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. 

How beautiful is night ! Thalaba. 

They sin who tell us Love can die : 
With Life all other passions fly, 
All others are but vanity. 

The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. St. 10. 

Love is indestructible : 
Its holy flame for ever burneth ; 
From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth ; 

It soweth here with toil and care, 
But the harvest-time of Love is there. ibid. 

Oh ! when a Mother meets on high 
The Babe she lost in infancy, 

Hath she not then, for pains and fears, 
The day of woe, the watchful night, 
For all her sorrow, all her tears, 
An over-payment of delight ? 

Ibid. Canto x. St. II. 



S out hey. 427 

Thou hast been called, O sleep ! the friend of woe ; 
But 't is the happy that have called thee so. 

Ibid. Canto xv. St. 1 1 . 

Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. 1 

Madoc in Wales, v. 

And last of all an Admiral came, 
A terrible man with a terrible name, — 
A name which you all know by sight very well ; 
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell. 
The March to Moscow. St. 8. 

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, 
A cottage of gentility ; 

And he owned with a grin, 
That his favourite sin 
Is pride that apes humility. 2 

The Devil's Walk. 

The Satanic school. 

From the Original Preface to the Vision of Judgment. 

" But what good came of it at last ? " 

Quoth little Peterkin. 
"Why that I cannot tell," said he ; 
" But 't was a famous victory.'' 

The Battle of Blenheim. 

Where Washington hath left 
His awful memory 
A light for after times ! 
Ode written during the War with America, 1814. 

1 Quoted by Byron, p. 489. 

2 Cf. Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. 



428 Hopkins 'Oft. — Pitt. 

[Southey continued. 

My days among the Dead are passed ; 

Around me I behold, 
Where'er these casual eyes are cast, 

The mighty minds of old ; 
My never-failing friends are they. 

With whom I converse day by day. 

Occasional Pieces, xviii. 

The march of intellect. 1 
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. 
Vol. ii. p. 360. 



JOSEPH HOPKINSON. 1770- 1842. 

Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! 
Hail, ye heroes ! heaven -born band ! 
Who fought and died in freedom's cause. 

Hail Columbia. 



WILLIAM PITT. 1840. 

A strong nor'-wester 's blowing, Bill ; 

Hark ! don't ye hear it roar now ! 
Lord help 'em, how I pities them 

Unhappy folks on shore now ! 

The Sailor's Consolation. 

1 The march of the human mind is slow. — Burke, 
Speech on Conciliation with America. 



Lamb. — Dibdin. 429 



CHARLES LAMB. 1775 -1834. 

Gone before 
To that unknown and silent shore. 

Hester. St. 7. 

I have had playmates, I have had companions, 
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, 
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 

Old Familiar Faces. 

And half had stagger'd that stout Stagirite, 

Written at Cambridge, 

Who first invented work and bound the free 
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down 

To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? 

Sabbathless Satan ! Work. 

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of 

the game. Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. 

Books which are no books. 

Detached Thoughts on Books. 



THOMAS DIBDIN. 1771-1841. 

O, it 's a snug little island ! 

A right little, tight little island ! 

The Suup Little Island. 



43° Coleridge. 

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 
1772 -1834. 

We were the first that ever burst 
Into that silent sea. 

The Ancient Mariner. Part ii. 

As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. ibid. 

Water, water, everywhere, 

Nor any drop to drink. ibid. 

Alone, alone, all, all alone, 

Alone on a wide, wide sea. ibid. Part iv. 

A spring of love gushed from my heart, 
And I blessed them unaware. ibid. 

O sleep ! it is a gentle thing, 

Beloved from pole to pole. ibid. Part v. 

A noise like of a hidden brook 

In the leafy month of June, 

That to the sleeping woods all night 

Singeth a quiet tune. ibid. 

Like one that on a lonesome road 

Doth walk in fear and dread, 

And, having once turned round, walks on 

And turns no more his head, 

Because he knows a frightful fiend 

Doth close behind him tread, ibid. Part vi. 



Coleridge. 43 1 

So lonely 't was, that God himself 
Scarce seemed there to be. 

The Ancient Mariner. Part vii. 
He prayeth well, who loveth well 
Both man and bird and beast. ibid. 

He prayeth best, who loveth best 

All things, both great and small. ibid. 

A sadder and a wiser man, 

He rose the morrow morn. ibid. 

And the Spring comes slowly up this way. 

Christabel. Part i. 

A lady so richly clad as she — 

Beautiful exceedingly. ibid. 

Carved with figures strange and sweet, 

All made out of the carver's brain. ibid. 

Her gentle limbs did she undress, 

And lay down in her loveliness. ibid. 

A sight to dream of, not to tell ! ibid. 

That saints will aid if men will call : 
For the blue sky bends over all ! 

Conclusion to Part i. 

Each matin bell, the Baron saith, 
Knells us back to a world of death. 

Ibid. Part ii. 
Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth \ 
And constancy lives in realms above \ 
And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; 



432 Coleridge, 

And to be wroth with one we love, 
Doth work like madness in the brain. 

Christabel. Part ii. 

They stood aloof, the scars remaining, — • 

Like cliff which had been rent asunder ; 

A dreary sea now flows between. ibid. 

Perhaps 't is pretty to force together 

Thoughts so all unlike each other ; 

To mutter and mock a broken charm, 

To dally with wrong that does no harm. 

Conclusion to Part ii. 

Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, 
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, 
Possessing all things with intensest love, 
O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there. 

France. An Ode. v. 

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, 
(Portentous sight !) the owlet Atheism, 
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, 
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, 
And, hooting at the glorious Sun in Heaven, 
Cries out, "Where is it? " Tears in Solitude. 

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin 
Is pride that apes humility. 1 

The Devil's Thoughts. 

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 

1 His favorite sin 
Is pride that apes humility. 

Southey, The Devil 's Walk. 



Coleridge, 433 

All are but ministers of Love, 

And feed his sacred flame. Love. 

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limit- 
less billows. 
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky 
and the ocean. 
The Homeric Hexameter. Translated from Schiller. 

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery 

column ; 
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. 

Blest hour ! it was a luxury — to be ! 

Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement. 

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star 
In his steep course ? 

Hy7Jin i)i the Vale of Chamonni. 
Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, ibid. 
Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! ibid. 

Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost. 

Ibid. 

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. 

Ibid. 

A mother is a mother still, 

The holiest thing alive. 

The Three Graves. 

Never, believe me, 

Appear the Immortals, 

Never alone. The Visit of the Gods. 1 

1 Imitated from Schiller. 

19 BB 



434 Coleridge. 

The Knight's bones are dust, 

And his good sword rust ; 

His soul is with the saints, I trust. 

The Knight' 1 s Tomb. 

To know, to esteem, to love, — and then to part, 
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! 
On Taking leave of , 1817. 

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 
A stately pleasure-dome decree : 
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 
Through caverns measureless to man 
Down to a sunless sea. Kubla Khan. 

A damsel with a dulcimer 
In a vision once I saw : 
It was an Abyssinian maid, 
And on her dulcimer she played, 
Singing of Mount Abora. ibid. 

For he on honey-dew hath fed, 

And drunk the milk of Paradise. ibid. 

Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, 
Death came with friendly care ; 

The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, 
And bade it blossom there. 

Epitaph on an Infant. 

The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. 

Dejection. St. I. 

Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud. 
We in ourselves rejoice ! 



Coleridge. 43 5 

And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, 

All melodies the echoes of that voice, 
All colours a suffusion from that light. 

Dejection. St. 5. 

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! 
Hath he not always treasures, always friends, 
The good great man ? three treasures, — love, 

and light, 
And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; 
And three firm friends, more sure than day and 

night, — 
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. 

Reproof. 

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. 

A Christmas Carol, viii. 

I counted two-and-seventy stenches, 

All well defined, and several stinks. Cologne. 

The river Rhine, it is well known, 
Doth wash your city of Cologne \ 
But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine 
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? 

Ibid. 

Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like ; 
Friendship is a sheltering tree ; 
O the Joys, that came down shower-like, 
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty, 
Ere I was old ! 

Youth and Age. 



436 Coleridge. 

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, 

The fair humanities of old religion, 

The power, the beauty, and the majesty, 

That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, 

Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, 

Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have 

vanished ; 
They live no longer in the faith of reason. 

Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Clothing the palpable and familiar 
With golden exhalations of the dawn. 

The Death of Wallenstein, Act \. Sc. 1. 

Often do the spirits 
Of great events stride on before the events, 
And in to-day already walks to-morrow. 

Ibid. Act. v. Sc. 1. 

I have heard of reasons manifold 
Why Love must needs be blind, 

But this the best of all I hold, — 
His eyes are in his mind. 

To a Lady, offended by a Sportive Observation. 

What outward form and feature are 

He guesseth but in part ; 
But what within is good and fair 

He seeth with the heart. Ibid. 

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. 

A Day-Dream. 

Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand, 
By those deep sounds possessed with inward 
light, 



Montgomery. 437 

Coleridge continued.] 

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey, 
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 

Fancy in Nubibus. 

Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. 

Biog. Lit. C/i. xv. 

A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he 
has the giant's shoulder to mount on. 1 

The Friend. Sec. i. Essay 8. 



JAMES MONTGOMERY. 1771-1854. 

When the good man yields his breath 
(For the good man never dies). 2 

The Wanderer of Switzerland. Part v. 

Friend after friend departs, — 

Who hath not lost a friend ? 
There is no union here of hearts, 

That finds not here an end. Friends. 

Once, in the flight of ages past, 

There lived a man. The Common Lot. 

? T is not the whole of life to live : 
Xor all of death to die. 

The Issues of Life and Death. 

1 A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further of the 
two. — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

Grant them but dwarfs, vet stand they on giants' 
shoulders, and may see the further. — Fuller, The Holy 
State, Ch. vi. 8. 

'" QvrjfjKeLV fir) Xeye tovs ay ado us Callim, Ep. x. 



438 Montgomery. — Speiicer. 

[Montgomery continued. 

If God hath made this world so fair, 
Where sin and death abound, 
How beautiful beyond compare 
Will paradise be found ! 

The Earth full of God f s Good?iess. 
Here in the body pent, 
Absent from Him I roam ; 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
A day's march nearer home. 

At Home in Heaven. 
Gashed with honourable scars, 

Low in Glory's lap they lie; 
Though they fell, they fell like stars, 

Streaming splendour through the sky. 

The Battle of Alexandria. 
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 

Uttered or unexpressed, 
The motion of a hidden fire 

That trembles in the breast. 

Original Hymns. What is Prayer ? 



WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. 
1770 -1834. 

Too late I stayed, — forgive the crime, — 

Unheeded flew the hours ; 
How noiseless falls the foot of time, 1 

That only treads on flowers. 

Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. 

1 Noiseless foot of time. — Shakespeare, All 's Well 
that Ends Well, Act v. Sc. 3. 



Campbell, 439 



THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777 -1844. 

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, 
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 7. 

But hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. 

Line 40. 

O Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save. 

Line 359. 

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, 
And Freedom shriek'd — as Kosciusko fell ! 

Line 381. 

On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, 
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. 

Line 385. 

And rival all but Shakespeare's name below. 

Line 472. 

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
The power of grace, the magic of a name ? 

Part ii. Line 5. 

Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
O what were man? — a world without a sun. 

Line 21. 

The world was sad, — the garden was a wild \ 
And Man, the hermit, sighed — till Woman smil'd. 

Line 37. 

While Memory watches o'er the sad review 
Of joys that faded like the morning dew. 

Line 45. 



440 Campbell. 

There shall be love, when genial morn appears, 
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. 

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 95. 

And Muse on Nature with a poet's eye. 

Line 98. 
That gems the starry girdle of the year. 

Line 194. 

Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll 
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul ! 

Line 263. 
O Star-eyed Science ! hast thou wandered there, 
To waft us home the message of despair ? 

Line 325. 

But, sad as angels for the good man's sin, 
Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 1 

Line 357. 

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, 
But leave — oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
Like angel-visits, few and far between. 2 

Line 375. 

The hunter and the deer a shade. 3 

V Conner's Child. St. 5. 

Another's sword has laid him low, 

Another's and another's ; 
And every hand that dealt the blow, 

Ah me ! it was a brother's ! 

Lbid. St. 10. 

1 Cf. Sterne, p. 326. 

2 Cf. Norris, p. 238, and Blair, p. 307. 

3 Verbatim from Freneau's Indian Burying- Ground. 



Campbell. 44 1 

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before. 1 

LochieVs Warning. 

With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. 

Ibid. 
1. 

Ye mariners of England ! 

That guard our native seas : 
Whose flag has braved a thousand years, 

The batde and the breeze ! 

Ye Mariners of England. 
III. 
Britannia needs no bulwarks, 

No towers along the steep ; 
Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, 

Her home is on the deep. 

IV. 

The meteor flag of England 

Shall yet terrific burn ; 
Till danger's troubled night depart, 

And the star of peace return. 

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 
W T ho rush to glory, or the grave ! 

Hohenlinden. 

There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin ; 
The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill ! 

1 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended in- 
spiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which 
futurity casts upon the present. — Shelley, A Defence of 
Poetry. 

19* 



44 2 Campbell. 

For his country he sighed, when at twilight re- 
pairing, 
To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. 

The Exile of Erin. 

To bear is to conquer our fate. 

On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire. 

The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. 1 

The Soldier's Dream. 

In life's morning march, when my bosom was 
young. ibid. 

But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, 
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. 

Ibid. 
There was silence deep as death • 

And the boldest held his breath, 

For a time. Battle of the Baltic. 

Triumphal arch, that filPst the sky, 
When storms prepare to part ; 

I ask not proud Philosophy 
To teach me what thou art. 

To the Rainbow. 

A stoic of the woods, — a man without a tear. 

Gertrude. Part. i. St. 23. 

O Love ! in such a wilderness as this. 

Ibid. Part iii. St I. 

The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below ! 

Ibid. Part iii. St. 5. 

1 The starres, bright centinels of the skies. 
Habington, Castara, Dialogue between Night and Araphil. 



SewalL — Paine. — Emmet. 443 

Campbell continued.] 

Drink ye to her that each loves best, 

And if you nurse a flame 
That 's told but to her mutual breast, 

We will not ask her name. Drink ye to her. 

To live in hearts we leave behind, 

Is not to die. Hallowed Ground. 



JONATHAN M. SEWALL. 1748-1808. 

No pent-up L'tica contracts your powers, 
But the whole boundless continent is yours. 

EpUogue to Cato. 1 



ROBERT TREAT PAINE. 1772 - 1S11. 

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, 
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its 
waves. Adams and Liberty. 



ROBERT EMMET. 1780 -1803. 

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb : let 
no man write my epitaph : no man can write my 
epitaph. 

Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason^ 

September, 1S03. 

1 Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, X. H. 



444 Scott. 



WALTER SCOTT. 1771-1832. 

Such is the custom of Branksome-Hall. 

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto i. St. vii. 

If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, 

Go visit it by the pale moonlight. 

Canto ii. St. 1. 
O fading honours of the dead ! 

high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 

1 was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. 12. 

I cannot tell how the truth may be ; 
I say the tale as 't was said to me. 

Canto ii. St, 22. 
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; 
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed \ 
In halls, in gay attire is seen ; 
In hamlets, dances on the green. 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above ; 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 

Canto iii. St. I. 
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, 
For lovers love the western star. 

Canto iii. St. 24. 

Along thy wild and willowed shore. 

Canto iv. St. I. 

Ne'er 
Was flattery lost on Poet's ear : 
A simple race ! they waste their toil 
For the vain tribute of a smile. Canto iv. St. 35. 



Scott. 445 

Call it not vain ; — they do not err 
Who say, that, when the Poet dies, 
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 
And celebrates his obsequies. 

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. St. I. 

True love 's the gift which God has given 
To man alone beneath the heaven : 

It is not fantasy's hot fire, 

Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; 

It liveth not in fierce desire, 

With dead desire it doth not die ; 
It is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link, the silken tie, 
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 
In body and in soul can bind. Canto v. St. 13. 

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land ! 
W T hose heart hath ne'er within him burned, 
As home his footsteps he hath turned 

From wandering on a foreign strand ? 
If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; 
For him no Minstrel raptures swell; 
High though his titles, proud his name, 
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; 
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, 
The wretch, concentred all in self, 
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 
And, doubly dying, shall go down 



446 Scott 

To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. 

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. St. I. 

O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 

Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 

Land of the mountain and the flood. 

Canto vi. St. 2. 

Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the 
lofty line. Marmion. Introduc. to Canto 1. 

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, 

When thought is speech, and speech is truth. 

Introduc. to Canto ii. 
When, musing on companions gone, 
We doubly feel ourselves alone. ibid. 

'T is an old tale and often told ; 

But did my fate and wish agree, 
Ne'er had been read, in story old, 
Of maiden true betrayed for gold, 

That loved, or was avenged, like me. 

Canto ii. St. 27. 
In the lost battle, 

Borne down by the flying, 
Where mingles war's rattle 

With groans of the dying. Canto iii. St. 10. 

Where 's the coward that would not dare 
To fight for such a land ? Canto iv. St. 30. 

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, 
And loved to plead, lament, and sue ; 



Scott. 447 

Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, 
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. 

Mar?nio7t. Canto v. St. 9. 

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. 

Cajito v. St. 12. 

But woe awaits a country when 
She sees the tears of bearded men. 

Canto v. St 16. 

And dar'st thou then 
To beard the lion in his den, 

The Douglas in his hall? Canto vi. St. 14. 

O, what a tangled web we weave, 
When first we practise to deceive ! 

Canto vi. St. 17. 
O woman ! in our hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou ! Canto vi. St. 30. 

" Charge, Chester, charge ! on, Stanley, on ! " 
Were the last words of Marmion. 

Canto vi. St. 32. 

O for a blast of that dread horn 1 

On Fontarabian echoes borne. Canto vi. Si. 33. 

To all, to each, a fair good-night, 

And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light ! 

Ibid. U Envoy. To the Reader. 

1 O for the voice of that wild horn. — Rob Roy } Ch. 2. 



44^ Scott. 

In listening mood, she seemed to stand, 
The guardian Naiad of the strand. 

The Lady of the Lake. Canto i. St. 17. 

And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace 

A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, 

Of finer form, or lovelier face. Canto i. St. 18. 

A foot more light, a step more true, 
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. 

Ibid. 

On his bold visage middle age 

Had slightly pressed its signet sage, 

Yet had not quenched the open truth 

And fiery vehemence of youth : 

Forward and frolic glee was there, 

The will to do, the soul to dare. Canto i. St. 21. 

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

Canto i. St. 31. 

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances ! 

Canto ii. St. 19. 

Some feelings are to mortals given, 
With less of earth in them than heaven. 

Canto ii. St. 22. 

Time rolls his ceaseless course. Canto iii. St. 1. 

Like the dew on the mountain, 

Like the foam on the river, 
Like the bubble on the fountain, 

Thou art gone, and for ever ! Canto iii. St. 16. 



Scott. 449 

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns from 
fears. 
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 
The Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. St. i. 

Art thou a friend to Roderick ? Canto iv. St. 30. 

Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly 
From its firm base as soon as I. Canto v. St 10. 

And the stern joy which warriors feel 

In foemen worthy of their steel. ibid. 

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, 
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! — 
Vain as the leaf upon the stream, 
And fickle as a changeful dream; 
Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
And fierce as Frenzy's fevered blood. 
Thou many-headed monster thing, 
O, who would wish to be thy king ! 

Canto v. St. 30. 

Where, where was Roderick then ? 
One blast upon his bugle horn 

Were worth a thousand men. Canto vi. St 18. 

Come as the winds come, when 

Forests are rended ; 
Come as the waves come, when 

Navies aie Stranded. Pibroch of Donald Dhu. 

cc 



45 o Scott. 

In man's most dark extremity 

Oft succour dawns from Heaven. 

The Lord of the Isles. Canto i. St. 20. 
Spangling the wave with lights as vain 
As pleasures in the vale of pain, 

That dazzle as they fade. Canto i. Si. 23. 

O, many a shaft, at random sent, 

Finds mark the archer little meant ! 

And many a word, at random spoken, 

May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken ! 

Canto v. St. 18. 

Where lives the man that has not tried 
How r mirth can into folly glide, 
And folly into sin ! 

The Bridal of Triermain. Canto i. St. 21. 

When Israel, of the Lord beloved, 
Out from the land of bondage came, 

Her fathers' God before her moved, 
An awful guide in smoke and flame. 

Tvanhoe. Ch. xl. 
Sea of upturned faces. Rob Roy. Ch. xx. 

There 's a gude time coming, ibid. Ch. xxxii. 

My foot is on my native heath, and my name 
is MacGregor. ibid. Ch. xxxiv. 

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! 

To all the sensual world proclaim, 
One crowded hour of glorious life 

Is worth an age without a name. 

Old Mortality. Ch xxxiv. /. 45 1 . 



Woodworth. 45 1 

Scott continued.] 

Within that awful volume lies 
The mystery of mysteries ! 

The Monastery. Ch. xii. 

And better had they ne'er been born, 
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. 

Ibid. 
Widowed wife and wedded maid. 

The Betrothed. Ch. xv. 

But with the morning cool reflection came. 1 

Highland Widow. Introduction. 

What can they see in the longest kingly line 
in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful 
soldier ? 2 Woodstock. Vol. ii. Ch. xxxvii. 



SAMUEL WOODWORTH. 1785 -1842. 

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 

The Bucket. 

1 At length the morn, and cold indifference, came. 

Rowe, The Fair Penitent, Act i. Sc. i. 

2 Un soldat tel que moi peut justement pretendre 
A gouverner l'etat, quand il l'a su defendre. 

Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux : 
Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'a'ieux. 

Voltaire, Merope, Act i. Sc. 3. 



452 Moore. 



THOMAS MOORE. 1779-1852. 

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, 
The past, the future, two eternities ! 

Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream. 

Ibid. 
Like the stained web that whitens in the sun, 
Grow pure by being purely shone upon. ibid. 

One morn a Peri at the gate 
Of Eden stood disconsolate. 

Paradise and the Peri. 

But the trail of the serpent is over them all. 

Ibid. 
O, ever thus, from childhood's hour, 

I Ve seen my fondest hopes decay ; 
I never loved a tree or flower, 

But 't was the first to fade away. 
I never nursed a dear gazelle, 

To glad me with its soft black eye, 
But when it came to know me well, 
And love me, it was sure to die. 

The Fire- Worshippers. 

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell. ibid. 

As sunshine, broken in the rill, 

Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Ibid. 

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter. 

Ibid. 



Moore. 45 3 

Alas ! how light a cause may move 

Dissension between hearts that love ! 

Hearts that the world in vain had tried, 

And sorrow but more closely tied ; 

That stood the storm, when waves were rough, 

Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 

Like ships that have gone down at sea, 

When heaven was all tranquillity. 

The Light of the Harem. 

And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, 

It is this, it is this. ibid. 

Love on through all ills, and love on till they 
die. ibid. 

How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? 
Thou more than soldier and just less than sage. 
Poems relating to America. To Thomas Hume. 

Go where glory waits thee ; 

But, while fame elates thee, 

Oh ! still remember me. 

Irish Melodies. Go where glory waits. 

The harp that once through Tara's halls 

The soul of music shed, 
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, 

As if that soul were fled. 
So sleeps the pride of former days, 

So glory's thrill is o'er, 
And hearts that once beat high for praise, 

Now feel that pulse no more. 

The Harp that 07ice. 



454 Moore. 

[Irish Melodies continued. 

Fly not yet, 't is just the hour 
When pleasure, like the midnight flower 
That scorns the eye of vulgar light, 
Begins to bloom for sons of night, 
And maids who love the moon. 

Fly not yet. 

Oh stay ! — Oh stay ! — 
Joy so seldom weaves a chain 
Like this to-night, that, oh ! 't is pain 

To break its links so soon. ibid. 

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers 
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. 

O think not my spirits. 

Rich and rare w r ere the gems she wore, 
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. 

Rich and rare. 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet 
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters 
meet. The Meeting of the Waters. 

Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my 

side 
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? 

Come send round the wine. 
The moon looks 
On many brooks, 
" The brook can see no moon but this." * 

While gazing on the moorts light. 

1 This image was suggested by the following thought, 
which occurs somewhere in Sir William Jones's Works : 
" The moon looks upon many night-flowers, the night- 
flower sees but one moon." 



Moore. 45 5 

Irish Melodies continued.] 

No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close ! 

As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 

Believe me, if all those endearing* 

And when once the young heart of a maiden is 
stolen, 
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. 

Ill ?7i ens. 

But there 's nothing half so sweet in life 
As love's young dream. Love's Young Dream. 

To live with them is far less sweet 

Than to remember thee ! 1 j saw thy for 771. 

'T is the last rose of summer, 
Left blooming alone. 

Last Rose of Sum7ner. 

When true hearts lie wither'd 

And fond ones are flown, 
Oh ! who would inhabit 

This bleak w r orld alone ? /bid. 

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you 

will, 
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 
Farewell ! But whe7iever you welcome the hour. 

Thus, when the lamp that lighted 
The traveller at first goes out, 

1 In imitation of Shenstone's inscription, " Heu ! quan- 
ta minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse." 



456 Moore. 

[Irish Melodies continued. 

He feels awhile benighted, 

And looks around in fear and doubt. 
But soon, the prospect clearing, 

By cloudless starlight on he treads, 
And thinks no lamp so cheering 
As that light which Heaven sheds. 

/ V mourn the hopes. 
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, 
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. 

Come o'er the sea. 
The light that lies 
In woman's eyes. The time I 've lost. 

My only books 
Were woman's looks, 
And folly 's all they Ve taught me. ibid. 

I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart, 
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. 

Come, rest in this bosom. 

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, 

and free, 
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. 

Remember thee. 

All that 's bright must fade, — 
The brightest still the fleetest ; 

All that 's sweet was made 
But to be lost when sweetest ! 
National Airs. All that *s bright must fade. 

Those evening bells ! those evening bells ! 
How many a tale their music tells ! 



Moore, 457 

National Airs continued.] 

Of youth, and home, and that sweet time 
When last I heard their soothing chime. 

Those Evening Bells. 
Oft, in the stilly night 

Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, 
Fond Memory brings the light 
Of other days around me ; 
The smiles, the tears, 
Of boyhood's years, 
The words of love then spoken ; 
The eyes that shone 
Now dimm'd and gone, 
The cheerful hearts now broken ! 

Oft in the stilly night. 

I feel like one 

Who treads alone 
Some banquet-hall deserted, 

Whose lights are fled, 

Whose garlands dead, 
And all but he departed ! ibid. 

As half in shade and half in sun 
This world along its path advances, 

May that side the sun 's upon 

Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances ! 

Peace be around thee. 

If I speak to thee in Friendship's name, 
Thou thmk'st I speak too coldly ; 

If I mention Love's devoted flame, 
Thou say'st I speak too boldly. 

How shall I woo ? 



45 8 Moore. 

National Airs continued.] 

To sigh, yet feel no pain, 

To weep, yet scarce know why ; 

To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, 
Then throw it idly by. The Blue Stocking. 

This world is all a fleeting show, 

For man's illusion given ; 
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, 

Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — 
There 's nothing true but Heaven ! 

Sacred Songs. The world is all a fleeting show. 

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea ! 
Jehovah has triumph'd — his people are free. 

Ibid. Sound the loud timbrel. 

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your 

anguish — 
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

Ibid. Co?ne, ye Disconsolate. 

I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curled 

Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, 
And I said, "If there 's peace to be found in the 
world, 
A heart that was humble might hope for it 
here." 

Poe??is relating to America. Ballad Stanzas. 

To Greece we give our shining blades. 

Evenings in Greece. 

Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they 
are ! 
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly 
veins, 



Cunningham. 459 

Moore continued.] 

That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, 
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. 

Oil the Entry of the Austrians into Naples , 182 1. 

A Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made, 
'T is but black eyes and lemonade. 

Intercepted Letters. Letter vi. 

Who ran 
Through each mode of the lyre, and was master 
of all. On the Death of Sheridan. 

Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, 
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. 

Ibid. 
Weep on ; and, as thy sorrows flow, 
I '11 taste the luxury of woe. A7iacreontk. 

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the 
pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the 
more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. 
Preface to Corruptio7i and Intolerance. 



ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 1785 -1842. 

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, 

A wind that follows fast, 
And fills the white and rustling sail, 

And bends the gallant mast. 

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea. 

While the hollow oak our palace is, 
Our heritage the sea. ibid. 



460 Heber. 



REGINALD HEBER. 1783 -1826. 

Failed the bright promise of your early day ! 

Palestine. 

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes-rung; 1 
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. 
Majestic silence ! ibid. 

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! 
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. 

Epiphany. 
By cool Siloam's shady rill 
How sweet the lily grows. 

First Sunday after Epiphany. No. ii. 

When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the 

laughing soil. Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 

Death rides on every passing breeze, 

He lurks in every flower. At a Funeral. 

Thou art gone to the grave ! but we will not de- 
plore thee, 

Though sorrows and darkness encompass the 
tomb. Ibid. No. ii. 

1 Altered in later editions to 

No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung, 
Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. 

Silently as a dream the fabric rose, 

No sound of hammer or of saw was there. 

Cowper, The Task, Booh v. The Winter Morning 

Walk. 



Story. — Decatur. 46 1 

Heber continued.] 

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, 
But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, 

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, 
As false and fleeting as \ is fair. 

On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope. 

From Greenland's icy mountains, 

From India's coral strand, 
Where Afric's sunny fountains 

Roll down their golden sand. 

Missionary Hy?nn. 

Though every prospect pleases, 

And only man is vile. Ibid. 

I see them on their winding way, 
Above their ranks the moonbeams play. 

Lines written to a March. 



JOSEPH STORY. 1779 -1845. 

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, 
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain ; 
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, 
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. 

Motto of the Salem Register. Life of Story, Vol. \. p. 127. 



STEPHEN DECATUR. 1779 -1820. 

Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign 
nations, mav she always be in the right : but our 
country, right or wrong. 

Toast given at Norfolk. April, 1 8 1 6 . 



462 Webster. 



DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. 

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I 
give my hand and my heart to this vote. 1 

Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1 826. 



Independence now and Independence forever. 



2 



Ibid. 



When my eyes shall be turned to behold for 
the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see 
him shining on the broken and dishonored frag- 
ments of a once glorious Union ; on States dis- 
severed, discordant, belligerent \ on a land rent 
with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fra- 
ternal blood. Second Speech on Foot's Resolution. 

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and 
inseparable. ibid. 

We wish that this column, rising towards 
heaven among the pointed spires of so many 

1 Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan 
Sewall, in 1774 says, " I answered, that the die was now 
cast ; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or 
die, survive or perish with my country, was my unaltera- 
ble determination." — Adams's Works, Vol. iv. 

Live or die, sink or swim. — Peele, Edward I 

2 Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams, " On the day of his 
death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the 
occasion. On being reminded that it was ' Independent 
Day,' he replied, 'Independence forever.'" — Webster's 
Works, Vol. \. p. 150. 



Webster. 463 

temples dedicated to God, may contribute also 
to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of de- 
pendence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that 
the last object to the sight of him who leaves 
his native shore, and the first to gladden his who 
revisits it, may be something which shall remind 
him of the liberty and the glory of his country. 
Let it rise ! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his 
coming ; let the earliest light of the morning 
gild it, and the parting day linger and play on 

its summit. Address on Laying the Comer-Stone of 'the 
Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. 

He smote the rock of the national resources, 
and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. 
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, 
and it sprung upon its feet. 1 

Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1 83 1. 

On this question of principle, while actual 
suffering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) 
raised their flag against a power, to which, for 
purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, 
Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be 
compared, — a power which has dotted over the 
surface of the whole globe with her possessions 
and military posts, whose morning-drum beat, 

1 He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. 
He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, 
and complexion ; he embraced the cold statue, and by his 
touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty. — Barry 
Yelverton (Lord Avonmore) on Blachstone. 



464 Webster. 

following the sun, and keeping company with 
the hours, circles the earth with one continuous 
and unbroken strain of the martial airs of Eng- 
land. 1 Speech, May 7, 1834. 

Sea of upturned faces. 2 

Speech, September 30, 1842. 

I was born an American ; I live an Ameri- 
can ; I shall die an American. 

Speech of July 17, 1 850. 

1 Why should the brave Spanish soldier brag the sun 
never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on 
one part or other we have conquered for our king? — 
Capt. John Smith, Advertisements for the Unexperienced, 
<5rv., Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc, yi Ser. Vol. \\\. p. 49. 

I am called 
The richest monarch in the Christian world ; 
The sun in my dominions never sets. 

Ich heisse 
Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt ; 
Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter. 

Schiller, Don Karlos, Act i. Sc. 6. 

The stake I play for is immense, — I will continue in 
my own dynasty the family system of the Bourbons, and 
unite Spain forever to the destinies of France. Remem- 
ber that the sun never sets on the immense empire of 
Charles V. (Napoleon, February, 1807). — Walter Scott, 
Life of Napoleon. 

2 This phrase, commonly supposed to have originated 
with Mr. Webster, occurs in Rob Roy, Vol. i. Ch. 20. 



Miner. — Irving. — Napier. 465 



CHARLES MINER. 1780- 1865. 

When I see a merchant over-polite to his cus- 
tomers, begging them to taste a little brandy and 
throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, 
that man has an axe to grind. 

Who '// turn Grindstones?* 



WASHINGTON IRVING. 1783 -1859. 

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal 
within the compass of a guinea. 

The Stout Gentleman. 

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of uni- 
versal devotion throughout our land, seems to 
have no genuine devotees in these peculiar vil- 
lages. The Creole Village. 

——4 

SIR W. F. P. NAPIER. 1785 -i860. 

Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, 
where every helmet caught some beams of glory, 
but the British soldier conquered under the cool 
shade of aristocracy ; no honours awaited his dar- 
ing, no despatch gave his name to the applauses 
of his countrymen ; his life of danger and hard- 
ship was uncheered by hope, his death unno- 
ticed. 

Peninsular War. Vol. ii. Book xi. Ch. 3. 1 810. 

1 From Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe \ 

Doylestown, Pa., 1 81 5. It first appeared in the Wilkes- 

barre Gleaner. 181 1. 

20 DD 



466 Byron. 



LORD BYRON. 1788- 1824. 

Farewell ! if ever fondest prayer 
For other's weal avail'd on high, 

Mine will not all be lost in air, 

But waft thy name beyond the sky. 

Farewell! if ever. 

I only know we loved in vain — 
I only feel — Farewell ! — Farewell ! 

Ibid. 
When we two parted 

In silence and tears, 
Half broken-hearted 
To sever for years. 

When we two parted. 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 6. 

'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print ; 
A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in 't, 

Line 51. 

With just enough of learning to misquote. 

Line 66. 

As soon 
Seek roses in December, — ice in June ; 
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, 
Believe a woman, or an epitaph, 
Or any other thing that 's false, before 
You trust in critics. Line 75. 



Byron. 467 

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. 

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 326. 

O Amos Cottle ! Phoebus ! what a name ! 

Line 399. 

So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 1 

Line 826. 

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, 
And decorate the verse herself inspires : 
This fact, in Virtue's name, let Crabbe attest : 
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. 

Line 839. 
Maid of Athens, ere we part, 
Give, oh, give me back my heart ! 

Maid of Athens. 

Had sighed to many though he loved but one. 
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. St. 5. 

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy 
men. Canto i. St 7. 

1 That eagle's fate and mine are one, 

Which on the shaft that made him die 
Espied a feather of his own, 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 
Waller, To a Lady singing a Song of his Co??iposing. 

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume 
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom ; 
See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart 
Which rank corruption destines for their heart. 

T. Moore, Corruption. 



468 Byron. 

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, 
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might 
despair. 

Childe Harold' } s Pilgrimage. Canto i. St. 9. 

Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. 

Ca?ito i. St. II. 
Adieu, adieu ! my native shore 
Fades o'er the waters blue. Canto i. St. 13. 

My native land — good night ! Canto i. St. 13. 

O Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see 
What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. 

Canto i. St. 15. 

In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. 

Canto i. St. 20. 

By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see 
For one who hath no friend, no brother there. 

Canto i. St. 40. 

Still from the fount of Joy's delicious springs 
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom 
flings. 1 Canto i. -5"/. 82. 

War, war is still the cry, — " war even to the 
knife ! " 2 Canto i. St. 86. 

1 Medio de fonte leporum 
Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat. 
Lucretius, iv. 1. 1133. 
2 " War even to the knife," was the reply of Palafox, 
the governor of Saragoza, when summoned to surrender 
by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. 



Byron, 469 

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things 
that were. 

Childe Harold 'j Pilgrimage. Canto ii. St. 2. 

A school-boy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! 

Ca?ito ii. St. 2. 

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade 
of power. Canto ii. St. 2. 

The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. 1 

Canto ii. St. 6. 

Ah ! happy years ! once more who would not be 
a boy ? Canto ii. St. 23. 

None are so desolate but something dear. 
Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd. 

Canto ii. St. 24. 

But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, 
To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, 
And roam along, the world's tired denizen, 
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. 

Canto ii. St. 26. 

Cooped in their winged sea-girt citadel. 

Canto ii. St. 28. 

Fair Greece 1 sad relic of departed worth ! 
Immortal, though no more \ though fallen, great ! 

Canto ii. St. 73. 

Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, 

Who would be free, themselves must strike the 

blow ? Canto ii. St. 76. 

1 And keeps that palace of the soul. — Waller, Of Tea. 



47° Byron. 

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; 
An hour may lay it in the dust. 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. St. 84. 

Land of lost gods and godlike men. 

Canto ii. St. 85. 

Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground. 

Canto ii. ,5"/. 88. 

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray 
Marathon. Canto ii. St. 88. 

Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart. 

Canto iii. St. 1. 

Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! 
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed 
That knows his rider. Welcome to the roar ! 

Canto iii. St. 2. 

I am as a weed, 
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail 
"Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's 
breath prevail. Canto iii. St. 2. 

Years steal 
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb ; 
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the 
brim. Canto iii. St. 8. 

There was a sound of revelry by night, 
And Belgium's Capital had gathered then 
Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright 
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; 
A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when 



Byron. 471 

Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, 

And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Canto iii. St. 21. 

On with the dance ! let joy be unconfmed. 

Ca?ito iii. St. 22. 

And there was mounting in hot haste. 

Canto iii. St. 25. 

Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! 
They come ! They come ! " 

CaJito iii. St. 25. 

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, 
Over the unreturning brave. Canto iii. St. 27. 

Battle's magnificently-stern array. 

Canto iii. St. 28. 

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live 
on. Canto iii. St. 32. 

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 

Canto iii. St. 42. 

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, 
Must look down on the hate of those below. 

Canto iii. St. 45. 

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind. 

Canto iii. St. 47. 
The castled crag of Drachenfels 
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. 

Canto iii. St. 55. 

He had kept 
The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him 
wept. Canto iii. St. 57. 



472 Byron. 

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity 

Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er 

shall be. 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. St. 70. 

By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. 

Canto iii. St. 71. 

To me 
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum 
Of human cities torture. Canto iii. St 72. 

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing 

To waft me from distraction. Canto iii. St. 85. 

On the ear 
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. 

Canto iii. St. 86. 

All is concentred in a life intense, 

Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, 

But hath a part of being. Canto m. St. 89. 

In solitude, where we are least alone. 

Canto iii. St. 90. 

The sky is changed ! and such a change ! O night, 
And storm, and darkness ! ye are wondrous 

strong, 
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light 
Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, 
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among 
Leaps the live thunder. Canto iii. St. 92. 

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 

Canto iii. St. 107. 



Byron. 473 

I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 

Childe Harold* s Pilgrimage. Canto iii. St. 113. 

I stood 
Among them, but not of them. 

Canto iii. St. 113. 

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; 
A palace and a prison on each hand. 

Canto iv. St. I. 

Where Venice sate in state, throned on her 
hundred isles. Canto iv. St. 1. 

Striking the electric chain wherewith we are 
darkly bound. Canto iv. St. 23. 

The cold — the changed — perchance the dead 

— anew, 
The mourn'd, the loved, the lost — too many ! — 

yet how few ! Canto iv. St. 24. 

Parting day 
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues 
With a new colour as it gasps away, 
The last still loveliest, till — 't is gone — and all 
is gray. Canto iv. St. 29. 

The Ariosto of the North. Canto iv. St. 40. 

Italia ! Oh Italia ! thou who hast 

The fatal gift of beauty. 1 Canto iv. St. 42. 

1 A translation of the famous sonnet of Filicaja: — 
Italia, Italia, tu cui feo la sorte ! 



474 Byron. 

Fills 
The air around with beauty. 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. St. 49. 

Let these describe the undescribable. 

Canto iv. St 53. 

The starry Galileo with his woes. 

Canto iv. St. 54. 

The poetry of speech. Canto iv. St 58. 

The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. 

Ca?ito iv. St. 69. 
The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. 

Canto iv. St. 79. 

Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, 
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. 

Canto iv. St. 98. 

Heaven gives its favourites — early death. 1 

Canto iv. St. 102. 

Man! 
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. 

Canto iv. St. 109. 

Egeria ! sweet creation of some heart 
Which found no mortal resting-place so fair 
As thine ideal breast. Canto iv. St. 115. 

The nympholepsy of some fond despair. 

Canto iv. St. 115. 

Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied 
forth. Canto iv. St 115. 

1 Cf. D071 Jzian, Canto iv. St 12. 



Byron. 475 

Alas ! our young affections run to waste, 
Or water but the desert. 

Childe Harold } s Pilgrimage. Canto iv. St. 120. 

I see before me the Gladiator lie. 

Ca?ito iv. St. 140. 
There were his young barbarians all at play, 
There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, 
Butcher' d to make a Roman holiday. 

Canto iv. St 141. 

" While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; 
And when Rome falls, — the World." 1 

Canto iv. St. 145. 
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou ? 
Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead ? 
Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low 
Some less majestic, less beloved head ? 

Canto iv. St. 168. 
Oh ! that the desert were my dwelling-place, 
With one fair Spirit for my minister, 
That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hating no one, love but only her ! 

Canto iv. St 177. 
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
There is society, where none intrudes, 
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar : 
I love not Man the less, but Nature more. 

Canto iv. St 1 7%. 

1 Literally, the exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth 
century, as recorded by the Venerable Bede. 
Cf. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Ch. 71. 



476 Byron. 

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain • 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore. 

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Canto iv. St. 179. 

He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, 
Without a grave, unknell'd, uncomn'd, and un- 
known. Canto iv. St. 179. 

Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — * 
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 

Canto iv. St. 182. 

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form 
Glasses itself in tempests. Canto iv. St 183. 

And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy 
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy 
I wanton'd with thy breakers, 

And trusted to thy billows far and near, 

And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do 

here. 2 Canto iv. St. 184. 

And what is writ, is writ, — 
Would it were worthier ! Canto iv. St. 185. 

Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been — 
A sound which makes us linger ; — yet — fare- 
well. Canto iv. St. 186. 

1 And thou vast ocean, on whose awful face 
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace. 
Robert Montgomery, The Omniprese7ice of the Deity. 
2 See Pollok, p. 501. 



Byron, 477 

Hands promiscuously applied, 
Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. 

The Waltz. 

He who hath bent him o'er the dead 

Ere the first day of death is fled, 

The first dark day of nothingness, 

The last of danger and distress, 

Before Decay's effacing fingers 

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 

The Giaour. Line 68. 

Such is the aspect of this shore ; 

'T is Greece, but living Greece no more ! 

So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 

We start, for soul is wanting there. Line 90. 

Shrine of the mighty ! can it be 

That this is all remains of thee ? Line 106. 

For freedom's battle, once begun, 

Bequeath' d by bleeding sire to son. 

Though baffled oft, is ever won. Line 123. 

And lovelier things have mercy shown 

To every failing but their own ; 

And every woe a tear can claim, 

Except an erring sister's shame. Line 418. 

The keenest pangs the wretched find 

Are rapture to the dreary void, 
The leafless desert of the mind, 

The waste of feelings unemploy'd. Line 957. 



478 Byron. 

Better to sink beneath the shock 
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock ! 

The Giaour. Line 969. 

The cold in clime are cold in blood, 
Their love can scarce deserve the name. 

Line 1099. 

I die — but first I have possess'd, 
And come what may, I have been blest. 

Line 1114. 

She was a form of life and light, 
That, seen, became a part of sight ; 
And rose, where'er I turned mine eye, 
The Morning-star of Memory ! 
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven ; 

A spark of that immortal fire 
With Angels shared, by Alia given, 

To lift from earth our low desire. Line 1127. 

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle 
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their 
clime ; 
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the 
turtle, 
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime P 1 
The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. St. I. 

1 Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, 
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, 
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, 
And the groves are of laurel, and myrtle, and rose ? 
Goethe, Wilhelm Meister. 



Byron. 479 

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, 
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? 

The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. St. I. 
Who hath not proved how feebly words essay 
To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? 
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight 
Faints into dimness with its own delight, 
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess 
The might — the majesty of Loveliness ? 

Canto i. St. 6. 
The light of love, the purity of grace, 
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 1 
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, 
And oh ! that eye was in itself a Soul. 

Canto i. St. 6. 
The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. 

Canto ii. St. 2. 

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! 
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! 

Ca?zto ii. St. 20. 

He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace. 2 

Canto ii. St. 20. 
Hark ! to the hurried question of Despair : 
" Where is my child ? " — an Echo answers — 
" Where ? " 3 

1 Cf. Lovelace p. 161, and Browne's Religio Medici. 
Part ii. Sec. 9. 

2 Solitudinem faciunt, — pacem appellant. 

Tacitus, Agricola, Cap. 30. 

3 I came to the place of my birth, and cried, " The 
friends of my Youth, where are they ? " And an Echo 
answered, " Where are they ? " — From An Arabic MS. 



480 Byron, 

O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, 
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, 
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 
Survey our empire, and behold our home. 

The Corsair. Canto i. St. I. 

She walks the waters like a thing of life, 
And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

Canto i. St. 3. 

The power of Thought, — the magic of the Mind. 

Canto i. St. 8. 

The many still must labour for the one ! 

Canto i. St. 8. 

There was a laughing Devil in his sneer. 

Canto i. St. 9. 

Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed Farewell ! 

Canto i. St. 9. 
Farewell ! 
For in that word, — that fatal word, — howe'er 
We promise — hope — believe, — there breathes 
despair. Canto i. St. 15. 

No words suffice the secret soul to show, 
For truth denies all eloquence to woe. 

Canto iii. St 22. 

He left a Corsair's name to other times, 
Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes. 1 

Canto iii. St. 24. 

1 Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many 
vices ; icna?n virtntem milk vitia comitantiir : as Machia- 
vel said of Cosmo de Medici, he had two distinct persons 
in him. — Burton, Anat. of Mel. Democritus to the Reader, 



Byron. 48 1 

Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe ! 

Lara. Canto i. St. 2. 

She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; 

And all that 's best of dark and bright 
Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; 

Thus mellow'd to that tender light 
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. 

Hebrew Melodies. She walks in beauty. 

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. 
Ibid. The Destruction of Sennacherib. 

It is the hour when from the boughs 
The nightingale's high note is heard ; 

It is the hour when lovers' vows 

Seem sweet in every whisper'd w T ord. 

Parisina. St. I. 

Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 
Still for ever, fare thee well. 

Fare thee well. 

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. 

A Sketch. 

In the desert a fountain is springing, 
In the wide waste there still is a tree, 

And a bird in the solitude singing, 
Which speaks to my spirit of thee. 

Stanzas to Augusta. 

Wh^n all of Genius which can perish dies. 

Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 22. 
21 EE 



482 Byron. 

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. 

Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 68. 

Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. 

Line 74. 
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, 
And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. 1 

Line 117. 
Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing 

To see the human soul take wing 
In any shape, in any mood. 

Prisoner of Chillon, viii. 

And both were young, and one was beautiful. 

The Dream. St. 2. 

And to his eye 
There was but one beloved face on earth, 
And that was shining on him. St. 2. 

She was his life, 
The ocean to the river of his thoughts, 2 
Which terminated all. St. 2. 

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. 

St. 3 . 

1 Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa. 

Ariosto, Orlando Turioso, Canto x. St. 80. 
The idea that Nature lost the perfect mould has been 
a favorite one with all song writers and poets, and is 
found in the literature of all European nation's. — Book 
of 'English Songs, p. 28. 

2 She floats upon the river of his thoughts. 

Longfellow, The Spanish Student. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Si che chiaro 
Per essa scenda della mente il fiume. 

Dante, Purg. Canto 13. 89. 



Byron. 483 

And they were canopied by the blue sky, 
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, 
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven. 

The Dream. St. 4. 

There 's not a joy the world can give like that it 
takes away. 

Stanzas for Music. There 9 s not a joy. 

I had a dream which was not all a dream. 

Darkness. 

My boat is on the shore, 
And my bark is on the sea. 

To Thomas Moore. 

Here 's a sigh to those who love me, 
And a smile to those who hate \ 

And, whatever sky 's above me, 

Here 's a heart for every fate. Ibid. 

Were 't the last drop in the well, 

As I gasp'd upon the brink, 
Ere my fainting spirit fell, 

'T is to thee that I would drink. ibid. 

So we '11 go no more a roving 

So late into the night. So we '11 go. 



j 



Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; 

Thev crown d him long ago 
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, 

With a diadem of snow. 

Manfred. Act i. Sc. I. 



484 Byron. 

The heart ran o'er 
With silent worship of the great of old ! — 
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule 
Our spirits from their urns. 

Manfred. Act. iii. Sc. 4. 

For most men (till by losing rendered sager) 
Will back their own opinions by a wager. 

Beppo. St. 27. 

Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto 
Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. 

St. 32. 
His heart was one of those which most enamour us, 
Wax to receive, and marble to retain. 1 St. 34. 

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. 

St. 39. 
That soft bastard Latin 
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. 

St. 44. 

Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, 
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. 

St. 45. 
Oh, Mirth and Innocence ! Oh, Milk and Water ! 
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days ! 

St. 80. 

And if we do but watch the hour, 
There never yet was human power 

1 For her my heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, 
but enduring as marble to retain whatever impression she 
shall make upon it. — Cervantes, La Gitamlla. 



Byron. 485 

Which could evade, if un forgiven, 
The patient search and vigil long 
Of him who treasures up a wrong. 

Mazeppa. x. 

They never fail who die 

In a great cause. 

Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Whose game was empires, and whose stakes 

were thrones, 
Whose table earth — whose dice were human 

bones. The Age of Bronze. St. 3. 

I loved my country, and I hated him. 

The Vision of Judgment, lxxxiii. 

Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. 
The Island. Caiito ii. St. 19. 

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, 

When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ; 

Like other charmers, wooing the caress 

More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; 

Yet thy true lovers more admire by far 

Thy naked beauties — Give me a cigar ! 

Canto ii. St. 19. 

My days are in the yellow leaf \ 

The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; 

The worm, the canker, and the grief 

Are mine alone ! On my Thirty-sixth Year. 

In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 
Save thine "incomparable oil,' 3 Macassar! 

Don yuan. Canto i. St. I J. 



486 Byron. 

But — oh ! ye lords of ladies intellectual I 
Inform us truly have they not hen-pecked you all ? 
Don Juan. Canto i. St. 22. 

The languages, especially the. dead, 

The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, 

The arts, at least all such as could be said 
To be the most remote from common use. 

Canto i. St. 40. 

Her stature tall — I hate a dumpy woman. 

Ca?ito i. St. 61. 

Christians have burnt each other, quite per- 
suaded 

That all the Apostles would have done as they 
did. Canto i. St. 83. 

And whispering "I will ne'er consent," — con- 
sented. Canto i. St. 117. 

'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near 
home ; 
'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

Canto i. St. 123. 

Sweet is revenge — especially to women. 

Canto i. St. 124. 

And truant husband should return, and say, 
"My dear, I was the first who came away." 

Canto i. St. 141. 

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 

'T is woman's whole existence. Canto i. St. 194. 



Byron, 487 

In my hot youth, — when George the Third was 

King. Don Juan. Ca?tto i. St. 212. 

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, 
I think I must take up with avarice. 

Canto i. St. 216. 

What is the end of Fame ? 't is but to fill 
A certain portion of uncertain paper. 

Canto i. St. 218. 

At leaving even the most unpleasant people 
And places, one keeps looking at the steeple. 

Canto ii. St. 14. 

There 's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit 

calms 
As rum and true religion. Canto ii. St. 34. 

A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 
Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 

Ca?zto ii. St. 53. 
All who joy would win 
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin. 

Canto ii. St. 172. 

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love. 

Canto ii. St. 168. 

Alas ! the love of women ! it is known 
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. 

Canto ii. St. 199. 
In her first passion, woman loves her lover : 
In all the others, all she loves is love. 1 

Canto iii. St. 3. 

1 Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment 
l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour. — La 
Rochefoucauld, Maxi?n 497. 



488 Byron. 

He was the mildest manner'd man 
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. 

Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 41. 

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung. 

Canto iii. St, 86. I. 
Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
But all, except their sun, is set. 

Canto iii. St. 86. I. 
The mountains look on Marathon — 

And Marathon looks on the sea ; 
And musing there an hour alone, 

I dreamed that Greece might still be free. 

Canto iii. St. 86. 3. 

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, 
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? 

Of two such lessons, why forget 
The nobler and the manlier one ? 

You have the letters Cadmus gave — 

Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 

Canto iii. St. 86. 10. 

Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, 
Where nothing, save the waves and I, 

May hear our mutual murmurs sweep \ 
There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 

Canto iii. St. 86. 16. 

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, 
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces 
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, 
think. Canto iii. St 88. 



Byron. 489 

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 
*T is that I may not weep. 

Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 4. 

The precious porcelain of human clay. 1 

Canto iv. St. II. 

" Whom the gocls love die young," was said of 
yore. 2 Canto iv. St. 12. 

These two hated with a hate 

Found only on the stage. Canto iv. St. 93. 

" Arcades ambo," id est — blackguards both. 

Cafito iv. St. 93. 

Oh ! " darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 3 

As some one somewhere sings about the sky. 

Canto iv. St. no. 

I Ye stood upon Achilles' tomb, 
And heard Troy doubted : time will doubt of 
Rome. Canto iv. St. 101. 

That all-softening, overpowering knell, 

The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell. 

Canto v. St. 49. 

1 Cf. Dry den, Don Sebastian, Act i. Sc. 1. 
2 Quern Di diligunt 
Adolescens moritur. — Plautus, Bacc/i., Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Ov ol Beol (f)i\ovcrLv ci7ToSvf]crK€L vlos Menander, 

apud Stob. Flor. cxx. 8. 
3 Quoted from Southey, 

" Though in blue ocean seen 
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue." 

Madoc in Wales, v. 
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490 Byron. 

The women pardoned all except her face. 

Don Juan. Canto v. St. 113. 

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, 

Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. 

Canto vi. St. 7. 

A " strange coincidence," to use a phrase 
By which such things are settled now-a-days. 

Canto vi. St. 78. 

The drying up a single tear has more 

Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. 

Canto viii. St. 3. 

Thrice happy he whose name has been well 

spelt 
In the despatch : I knew a man whose loss 
Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose. 

Canto viii. St. 18. 

And wrinkles, the d — d democrats, won't flatter. 

Canto x. St. 24. 

Oh for a forty pat son power. Canto x. St. 34. 

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," 
And proved it — 't was no matter what he said. 

Canto xi. St. 1. 

And, after all, what is a lie ? 'T is but 

The truth in masquerade. Canto xi. St. 37. 

'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, 
Should let itself be snuff 'd out by an article. 

Canto xi. St. 59. 

Of all tales 't is the saddest — and more sad, 
Because it makes us smile. Canto xiii. St. 9. 



Key. 491 

Byron continued.] 

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. 

Don Juan, Cantoxm.St.il. 

Society is now one polished horde, 
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and 
Bored. Canto xiii. St 95. 

'T is strange — but true \ for truth is always 

strange ; 
Stranger than fiction. Canto xiv. St. 10 1. 

The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, 
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 

Canto xv. St. 13. 

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. 

Memoranda from his Life, by Moore y ck. xiv. 

The best of Prophets of the future is the Past. 

Letter, January 28, 1 82 1. 



F. S. KEY. 1779- 1843. 

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 

us a nation ! 
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
And this be our motto, " In God is our trust " ; 
And the star-spangled banner, O long may it 

wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the 

brave ! The Star-spangled Banner. 



49 2 Hunt. - — Pierpont — Marcy. 



LEIGH HUNT. 1784- 1859. 

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) 
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. 

Abou Ben Adhem, 

And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. 

Ibid. 
O for a seat in some poetic nook, 
Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook. 

Politics and Poetics, 

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks 
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. 

The Story of Rimini. 



JOHN PIERPONT. 1785 -1866. 

A' weapon that comes down as still 
As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ■ 

But executes a freeman's will, 

As lightning does the will of God ; 

And from its force, nor doors nor locks 

Can shield you ; — 't is the ballot-box. 

A Word fr 0711 a Petitioner, 



WILLIAM L. MARCY. 1786 -1857. 

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to 
the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. 

Speech in the United States Senate ; January, 1832. 



Shelley. 493 



PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792 -1822. 

How wonderful is Death ! 

Death and his brother Sleep. Queen Mab. i. 

Power, like a desolating pestilence, 
Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, 
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, 
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame 
A mechanized automaton. ibid. iii. 

Heaven's ebon vault, 
Studded with stars unutterably bright, 
Thro' which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, 
Seems like a canopy which love has spread 
To curtain her sleeping world. Ibid. iv. 

Then black despair, 
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown 
Over the world in which I moved alone. 

The Revolt of Islam. Dedicatioit. St. vi. 

With hue like that when some great painter dips 
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and 

eclipse. Ibid. Canto v. St. xxiii. 

Kings are like stars — they rise and set — they 

have 
The worship of the world, but no repose. 1 

Hellas. 

1 Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good 
or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no 
rest. — Bacon, Essay xx. Empire. 



494 Shelley. 

All love is sweet, 
Given or returned. Common as light is love, 
And its familiar voice wearies not ever. 

They who inspire it most are fortunate, 
As I am now ; but those who feel it most 
Are happier still. 1 

Prometheus Unbound. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see 

The work of their own hearts, and that must be 

Our chastisement or recompense. 

yulian and Maddalo. 

Most wretched men 
Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; 
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 

Ibid. 

I could lie down like a tired child, 
And weep away the life of care 
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. 

Stanzas, written m Dejection, near Naples. 

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, 
Whom mortals call the moon. The Cloud, iv. 

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift. 

Adonais xxxii. 

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, 
Stains the white radiance of eternity, ibid. Hi. 

1 The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier 
in the passion we feel than in that we excite. — Roche- 
foucauld, Maxim 78. 



Barrett. — Steers. 495 

Shelley continued.] 

Music, when soft voices die 

Vibrates in the memory — 
Odours, when sweet violets sicken, 

Live within the sense they quicken. 

Poems written in 1821. To . 

The desire of the moth for the star, 

Of the night for the morrow, 
The devotion to something afar 

From the sphere of our sorrow ! 

Poems written in 1 82 1. To — . 



EATON STANNARD BARRETT. 

1785 - 1820. 

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, 
Not she denied him with unholy tongue ; 
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, 
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. 

Woman. Part i. Ed. 1822. 1 



MISS FANNY STEERS. 

The last link is broken 

That bound me to thee, 
And the words thou hast spoken 

Have rendered me free. Song. 

1 Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung, 
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue ; 
She, when apostles fled, could danger brave, 

t Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. 

From the original edition of 1 8 10. 



496 Drake. — Hemans. 



JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820. 

When Freedom from her mountain height 

Unfurled her standard to the air, 
She tore the azure robe of night, 

And set the stars of glory there. 
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
The milky baldric of the skies, 
And striped its pure, celestial white, 
With streakings of the morning light. 

Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! 

By angel hands to valour given ; 
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
Forever float that standard sheet ! 

Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
W T ith Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 

And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? 

The American Flag. 



FELICIA HEMANS. 1794- 1835. 

Leaves have their time to fall, 
And flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath, 

And stars to set ; — but all, 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! 

The Hour of Death. 
Alas ! for love, if thou art all, 
And naught beyond, O Earth ! 

The Graves of a Household. 



Wrother. 497 

Hemans continued.] 

The breaking waves dash'd high 
On a stern and rock-bound coast ; 

And the woods, against a stormy sky, 
Their giant branches toss'd. 
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England. 

Ay, call it holy ground, 

The soil where first they trod, 
They have left unstain'd what there they found, — 

Freedom to worship God. ibid. 

The boy stood on the burning deck, 
Whence all but him had fled ; 

The flame that lit the battle's wreck 
Shone round him o'er the dead. 

Casablanca. 



MISS WROTHER. 

Hope tells a flattering tale, 1 

Delusive, vain, and hollow, 
Ah let not Hope prevail, 

Lest disappointment follow. 
From The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. &6. 

1 Hope told a flattering tale, 

That Joy would soon return ; 
Ah, naught my sighs avail, 
For love is doomed to mourn. 

Anon. Vol. i. p. 320. 2 

2 Air by Giovanni Paisiello (1741 - 1816). 

FF 



498 Keats. 



JOHN KEATS. 1795-1821. 

A thing of beauty is a joy forever ; 

Its loveliness increases ; it will never 

Pass into nothingness. Endymion. Line 1. 

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. 

Lamia. Part ii. 

Music's golden tongue 
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. 

The Eve of St. Agnes. St. 3. 

As though a rose should shut, and be a bud 
again. ibid. St. 27. 

And lucent sirups, tinct with cinnamon. 

Ibid. St. 30. 

That large utterance of the early gods ! 

Hyperion. Book i. 

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, 
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. 

Ibid. 

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. 

Ode on a Grecian Urn. 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard 
Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on ; 

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, 
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. 

Ibid. 



Wolfe. — Milman. 499 

Keats continued.] 

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 
Ode on a Grecian Ur?t. 
Hear ye not the hum 

Of mighty workings ? Addressed to Haydon. 

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 
When a new planet swims into his ken ■ 

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes 
He stared at the Pacific — and all his men 

Look'cl at each other with a wild surmise — 
Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 

Oji first looking into Chapman V Homer. 

The poetry of earth is never dead. 

On the Grasshopper and Cricket. 



CHARLES WOLFE. 1791-1823. 

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, 
As his corse to the rampart we hurried. 

The Burial of Sir yohn Moore. 

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 

With his martial cloak around him. ibid. 

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, 
But we left him alone with his glory ! ibid. 



HENRY HART MILMAN. 
And the cold marble leapt to life a god. 

The Belvidere Apollo. 

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ibid. 



500 Milnes. — Payne, — Uhland. 



RICHARD M0NCKT0N MILNES. 

But on and up, where Nature's heart 
Beats strong amid the hills. 

Tragedy of the Lac de Gaitbe. St. 2. 

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, 
Like instincts, unawares. The Men of Old. 

A man's best things are nearest him, 

Lie close about his feet. ibid. 

The beating of my own heart 
Was all the sound I heard. 

/ wa7idered by the Brookside. 



J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble there 's no place like home. 1 

Ho?ne, Sweet Home? 



JOHN LOUIS UHLAND. 1787 -1862. 

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ; 
Take, — I give it willingly ; 
For, invisible to thee, 
Spirits twain have cross'd with me. 

The Passage. 

1 " Home is home though it be never so homely " is 
a proverb, and is found in the collections of the seven- 
teenth century. 

2 From The Opera of Clari — the Maid of Milan. 



Talfourd. — Pollok. 5 o 1 



THOMAS NOON TALFOURD. 1795-1854 

So his life has flowed 
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, 
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure 
Alone are mirrord ; which, though shapes of ill 
May hover round its surface, glides in light, 
And takes no shadow from them. 

Ion. Acti.Sc. 1. 

'T is a little thing 
To give a cup of water ; yet its draught 
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever' d lips, 
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame 
More exquisite than when Nectarean juice 
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 



ROBERT POLLOK. 1799 -1827. 

He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane" 
And played familiar with his hoary locks. 1 

The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 389. 

He was a man 
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven 
To serve the Devil in. Book viii. Line 616. 

With one hand he put 
A penny in the urn of poverty, 
And with the other took a shilling out. 

Book viii. Line 632. 

1 Cf. Byron, Childe Harold, Canto iv. St. 184. 



502 Bayly. 



THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY. 1797- 1839. 

I'd be a Butterfly ; living a rover, 

Dying when fair things are fading away. 

I'd be a Butterfly. 
Oh ! no ! we never mention her, 

Her name is never heard ; 
My lips are now forbid to speak 
That once familiar word. 

Oh ! no ! we never mention her. 

We met — 't was in a crowd. We met. 

Why don't the men propose, mamma, 
Why don't the men propose ? 

Why don't the men propose ? 
She wore a wreath of roses, 
The night that first we met. 

She wore a wreath. 

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, 
Long, long ago, long, long ago. 

Long, long ago. 
The rose that all are praising 
Is not the rose for me. 

The rose that all are praising. 

O pilot ! 't is a fearful night, 

There 's danger on the deep. The Pilot. 

Absence makes the heart grow fonder \ 
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well ! 

Isle of Beauty. 
Gayly the Troubadour 

Touched his guitar. Welcome me home. 



Keble. — Procter. 503 



JOHN KEBLE. 1792 -1866. 

Why should we faint and fear to live alone, 

Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, 

Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, 

Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. 

The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday 

after Trinity. 

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose 
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse 
How grows in Paradise our store. 

Burial of the Dead. 

Abide with me from morn till eve, 
For without Thee I cannot live ; 
Abide with me when night is nigh, 
For without Thee I dare not die. Evening. 



BRYAN W. PROCTER. 

The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 

The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! The Sea. 

I J m on the sea ! I'raon the sea ! 

I am where I would ever be, 

With the blue above and the blue below, 

And silence wheresoe'er I go. ibid. 

I never was on the dull, tame shore, 
But I loved the great sea more and more. 

Ibid. 



504 Brougham. — Barry. 



LORD BROUGHAM. 

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can 
do nothing in this age. There is another per- 
sonage, a personage less imposing in the eyes 
of some, perhaps insignificant. The school- 
master is abroad, and I trust to him, armed 
with his primer, against the soldier in full mili- 
tary array. Speech, January 29, 1828. 

In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he 
was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was 
betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who 
once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, 
and Commons, the whole machinery of the state, 
all the apparatus of the system, and its varied 
workings, end in simply bringing twelve good 
men into a box. 

Presejzt State of the Law, Feb. 7, 1828. 

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. 1 



MICHAEL J. BARRY. 

But whether on the scaffold high 

Or in the battle's van, 
The fittest place where man can die 

Is where he dies for man ! 

From The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844. 
Vol. ii. p. 809. 

1 The title given by Lord Brougham to a book pub- 
lished in 1830, under the superintendence of the Society 
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 



Lytton. — Motherwell. 505 



EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. 

Beneath the rule of men entirely great 
The pen is mightier than the sword. 

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Take away the sword ; 
States can be saved without it ; bring the pen ! 

Ibid. 

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves 
For a bright manhood, there is no such word 
As — fail. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Alone ! — that worn-out word, 
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard ; 
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, 
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word — Alone ! 

The New Timon. Part ii. 7. 



WILLIAM MOTHERWELL. 1797 -1835. 

I 've wandered east, I Ve wandered west, 

Through many a weary way ; 
But never, never can forget 

The love of life's young day. 

Jeannie Morison. 

And we, with Nature's heart in tune, 
Concerted harmonies. Ibid. 



506 Hood. 



THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. 

We watched her breathing through the night, 

Her breathing soft and low, 
As in her breast the wave of life 

Kept heaving to and fro. The Death-Bed. 

Our very hopes belied our fears, 

Our fears our hopes belied \ 
We thought her dying when she slept, 

And sleeping when she died. ibid. 

One more Unfortunate 
Weary of breath, 
Rashly importunate, 
Gone to her death. 

The Bridge of Sighs, 
Take her up tenderly, 
Lift her with care ; 
Fashioned so slenderly, 
Young, and so fair ! Ibid. 

Alas for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 

Under the sun ! Ibid. 

Even God's providence 

Seeming estranged. Ibid. 

Boughs are daily rifled 

By the gusty thieves, 

And the book of Nature 

Getteth short of leaves. The Seasons. 



Hood. 507 

When he is forsaken, 
Withered and shaken, 
What can an old man do but die? Ballad. 

It is not linen you 're wearing out, 
But human creatures' lives. 1 

Song of the Shirt. 

My tears must stop, for every drop, 
Hinders needle and thread. ibid. 

But evil is wrought by want of thought 
As well as want of heart. 

The Lady's Dream. 

And there is even a happiness 
That makes the heart afraid. 

Ode to Melancholy. 

There 's not a string attuned to mirth, 
But has its chord in Melancholy. ibid. 

I remember, I remember 

The fir-trees dark and high ; 

I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky ; 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 't is little joy 

To know I 'm further off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

I remember, I remember. 

Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap 
In imperceptible water. Miss Kilmansegg. 

1 It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives. — Scott, 
The Antiquary, Ch. xi. 



508 Choate. 

[Hood continued. 

Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! 
Bright and yellow, hard and cold. 

Miss Killmansegg. Her Moral. 
Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old 
To the very verge of the churchyard mould. 

Ibid. 
How widely its agencies vary — 

To save — to ruin — to curse — to bless — 
As even its minted coins express, 
Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, 
And now of a Bloody Mary. ibid. 

Oh ! would I w r ere dead now, 
Or up in my bed now, 
To cover my head now 
And have a good cry ! 

A Table of Errata. 



RUFUS CHOATE. 1799 -1859. 

There was a State without King or nobles ; 
there was a church without a Bishop ; there was 
a people governed by grave magistrates which it 
had selected, and equal laws which it had framed. 

Speech before the New England Society, New York, 
December 22, 1843. 
We join ourselves to no party that does not 
carry the flag and keep step to the music of the 
Union. letter to the Whig Convention. 

Its constitution the glittering and sounding 
generalities of natural right which make up the 
Declaration of Independence. 

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee. 



Hervey. — Praed. 509 

THOMAS K. HERVEY. 1799- 1859. 

The tomb of him who would have made 

The world too glad and free. 

The DeviPs Progress. 
He stood beside a cottage lone, 

And listened to a lute, 
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, 

And the nightingale was mute. ibid. 

A love that took an early root, 

And had an early doom. ibid. 

Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, 

But never came to shore ! ibid. 

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, 

His eye was dim and cold, 
The hairs on his brow were silver-white, 

And his blood was thin and old. ibid. 



W. M. PRAED. 1802 -1839. 

Twelve years ago I was a boy, 
A happy boy, at Dairy's. 

School and School-fellows. 
Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, 

And some before the speaker. ibid. 

I remember, I remember 

How my childhood fleeted by, — 

The mirth of its December, 
And the warmth of its July. 

I remember. I remember. 



510 Macaulay. 



THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800 -1859. 

She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still 
exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller 
from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast 
solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of 
London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. 1 
Review of Rankers History of the Popes. 

1 The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824, 
in the concluding paragraph of a review of Mitford's 
Greece, and he repeated it in his review of Mill's Essay 
on Government, in 1829. , 

Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like my- 
self will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the 
Thames, or the Zuyder Zee, where now, in the tumult 
of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take 
in the multitude of sensations ? Who knows but he will 
sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people 
inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name ? 
— Volney's Ruins, Ch. 2. 

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit 
England, and give a description of the ruins of St. 
Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra. — 
Horace Walpole. Letter to Mason, Nov. 24, 1774. 
Where now is Britain ? 

Even as the savage sits upon the stone 
That marks where stood her capitols, and hears 
The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks 
From the dismaying solitude. 

Henry Kirke White, Time. 
In the firm expectation, that when London shall be an 
habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster 
Abbey shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins in the 



Ingram. 5 1 1 

Macaulay continued.] 

The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because 
it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave 
pleasure to the spectators. 1 

History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. 

To every man upon this earth 
Death cometh soon or late, 

And how can man die better 
Than facing fearful odds, 

For the ashes of his fathers 
And the temples of his gods ? 

Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius, xxvii. 

How well Horatius kept the bridge 
In the brave days of old. ibid. lxx. 



JOHN K. INGRAM. 

Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight ? 

Who blushes at the name ? 
When cowards mock the patriot's fate, 

Who hangs his head for shame ? 
From The Dublin Nation, April i, 1843. Vo? - ' l - P- 339- 

midst of an unpeopled marsh ; when the piers of Water- 
loo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and 
osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches 
on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator 
will be weighing in the scales of some new and now un- 
imagined system of criticism the respective merits of the 
Bells and the Fudges, and their historians. — Shelley, 
Dedication to Peter Bell. 

1 Even bearbaiting was esteemed heathenish and un- 
christian ; the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave of 
fence. — Hume, History of England^ Vol. i. Ch. 62. 



512 Morris, — A Idrick. 



GEORGE P. MORRIS. 1802 -1864. 

Woodman, spare that tree ! 

Touch not a single bough ! 
In youth it sheltered me, 

And I '11 protect it now. 

Woodman, spare that Tree. 

A song for our banner ? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station : 
" United we stand — divided we fall ! " 

It made and preserves us a nation ! 
The union of lakes — the union of lands — 

The union of States none can sever — 
The union of hearts — the union of hands — 

And the Flag of our Union forever ! 

The Flag of our Union. 

Near the lake where drooped the willow, 

Long time ago ! Near the Lake. 



JAMES ALDRICH. 1810-1856. 

Her suffering ended with the day, 

Yet lived she at its close, 
And breathed the long, long night away, 

In statue-like repose. A Death-Bed. 

But when the sun, in all his state, 

Illumed the eastern skies, 
She passed through Glory's morning gate, 

And walked in Paradise. ibid* 



Bryant 5 1 3 



WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 

To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language. Thanatopsis. 

Go forth under the open sky, and list 

To Nature's teachings. Ibid. 

Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — 

Are but the solemn decorations all 

Of the great tomb of man. Ibid. 

All that tread 
The globe are but a handful to the tribes 
That slumber in its bosom. ibid. 

So live that when thy summons comes to join 
The innumerable caravan which moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and 

soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, 
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 

Ibid 
The stormy March has come at last, 

With wind and clouds and chansiino; skies ; 

I hear the rushing of the blast 

That through the snowy valley flies. 

March. 



514 Bryant. 

But 'neath yon crimson tree, 
Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, 
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, 

Her blush of maiden shame. Autumn Woods. 

The groves were God's first temples. 

Forest Hymn. 

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of 
the year, 

Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and mead- 
ows brown and sear. 

The Death of the Flowers. 

And sighs to find them in the wood and by the 
stream no more. Ibid. 

Loveliest of lovely things are they, 
On earth that soonest pass away. 
The rose that lives its little hour 
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. 

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson. 

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : 
The eternal years of God are hers ; 

But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among his worshippers. 

The Battle-field. 



Taylor. — Seward. 5 1 5 



HEXRY TAYLOR. 

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 
Philip Van Artevelde. Parti. Act I Sc. 5. 

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. 
Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure 
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. 
Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, 
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, 
Nor aught that dignifies humanity. 

Ibid. 
We figure to ourselves 
The thing we like, and then we build it up 
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : 
For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, 
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. 

Ibid. 
Such souls, 

Whose sudden visitations daze the world, 

Vanish like lightning, but thev leave behind 

A voice that in the distance far away 

Wakens the slumbering ages. Acti. Sc. 7. 



WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
There is a higher law than the Constitution. 

Speech, March 11, 1850. 
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing 
and enduring forces. Speech, Oct. 25, 1858. 



5 1 6 Bailey. — Child. 



PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. 

We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not 

breaths ; * 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most 

lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

Festus. 

Life 's but a means unto an end, that end, 
Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. 

Ibid. 

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, 
And tell them : and the truth of truths is love. 

Ibid. 
— e — 

LYDIA MARIA CHILD. 

England may as well dam up the waters of 
the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of 
Freedom, more proud and firm, in this youthful 
land, than where she treads the sequestered 
glens of Scotland, or couches herself among 
the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. 

Supposititious Speech of James Otis. From The 
Rebels, Ch. iv. 

1 A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler 
line, — by deeds, not years. — Sheridan, Pizarro, Actiw. 
Sc. I. 



Tennyson. 517 



ALFRED TENNYSON. 

Broad based upon her people's will, 
And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

To the Queen. 
For it was in the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid. 

Recollections of the Arabian Nights. 

Across the walnuts and the wine. 

The Miller's Daughter. 

Love, O fire! once he drew 

With one long kiss my whole soul through 
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. 

Fatima. St. 3. 

1 built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, 

Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. 

The Palace of Art. 

From yon blue heaven above us bent, 
The grand old gardener and his wife 
Smile at the claims of long descent. 

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'T is only noble to be good. 1 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. Ibid. 

1 Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. 

Juvenal, Sat. viiL Line 20. 

To be noble, we '11 be good. 

Winefreda. 



5 1 8 Tennyson. 

You must wake and call me early, call me early, 

mother dear ; 
To-morrow '11 be the happiest time of all the 

glad New Year ; 
Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, 

merriest day ; 

For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm 

to be Queen o' the May. 

The May Queen. 

I am a part of all that I have met. 1 Ulysses. 

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the bur- 

nish'd dove ; 
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns 

to thoughts of love. Locksley Hall 

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all 

the chords with might ; 
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed 

in music out of sight. Ibid. 

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have 

spent its novel force, 
Something better than his dog, a little dearer 

than his horse. Ibid. 

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Ibid. 

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a 
daughter's heart. Ibid. 

1 I live not in myself, but I become 
Portion of that around me. 

Byron, Childe Harold, Canto iii. St. 72. 



Tennyson. 519 

This is truth the poet sings, 
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering 
happier things. 1 Locksley Hall. 

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt 
that Honour feels. Ibid. 

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping 
something new. Ibid. 

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing 

purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the 

process of the suns. Ibid. 

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear 
my dusky race. ibid. 

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files 
of time. ibid. 

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing 
grooves of change. ibid. 

1 Nessum maggior dolore 
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice 
Nella miseria. 

Dante, Inferno, Book v. St. 12 1. 
For of fortunes sharpe adversite, 
The worst kind of infortune is this, 
A man that has been in prosperite, 
And it remember, whan it passed is. 
Chaucer, Troilus and Creseide, Book iii. Line 1625. 
In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est 
infortunii fuisse felicem. Boethius, De Consol. Phil., 
Lib. ii. 



5 20 Tennyson. 

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 

Locksley Hall. 

But O ! for the touch of a vanish'd hand, 
And the sound of a voice that is still ! 

Break, break, break. 

But the tender grace of a day that is dead 
Will never come back to me. ibid. 

We are ancients of the earth, 
And in the morning of the times. 

The Day-Dream. L' Envoi. 

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, 
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. 

The Princess. Prologue. 

A rosebud set with little wilful, thorns, 
And sweet as English air could make her, she. 

Ibid. 

Jewels five- words long, 
That on the stretched forefinger of all time 
Sparkle forever. The Princess. Canto ii. 

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, 
Blow, bugle ; answer echoes, dying, dying, dying. 

Ibid. Canto iii. 

O love, they die in yon rich sky, 

They faint on hill or field or river : 
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, 
And grow for ever and for ever. 
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, 
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. 

Ibid. Canto iii. 



Tennyson. 5 2 1 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, 
In looking on the happy Autumn fields, 
And thinking of the days that are no more. 

The Princess. Canto iv. 

Unto dying eyes 
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square. 

Ibid. Canto iv. 

Dear as remembered kisses after death, 
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned 
On lips that are for others ; deep as love, 
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ; 
O Death in Life ! the days that are no more. 

Ibid. Canto iv. 

Sweet is every sound, 
Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; 
Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, 
The moan of doves in immemorial elms, 
And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

Ibid. Canto vii. 

Happy he 

With such a mother ! faith in womankind 
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high 
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. 

Ibid. Canto vii. 

Never morning wore 
To evening, but some heart did break. 

In Menioriam. vi. 



522 Tennyson. 

And topples round the dreary west 
A looming bastion fringed with fire. 

In Memoriam. xv. 

And from his ashes may be made 
The violet of his native land. 1 

Ibid, xviii. 

I do but sing because I must, 
And pipe but as the linnets sing. 

Ibid. xxi. 

The shadow cloak'd from head to foot, 
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. 

Ibid, xxiii. 

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought 
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 

Ibid, xxiii. 

'T is better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all. 

Ibid, xxvii. 
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 

Ibid, xxxii. 
Whose faith has centre everywhere, 
Nor cares to fix itself to form. 

Ibid, xxxiii. 
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip 
Their wings .... and skim away. 

Ibid, xlvii. 

Hold thou the good : define it well : 
For fear divine Philosophy 
Should push beyond her mark, and be 

Procuress to the Lords of Hell. ibid. Hi. 

1 Cf. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act v. Sc. I. 



Tennyson. S 2 3 

O yet we trust that somehow good 
Will be the final goal of ill. 

In Memoriam. liii. 

But what am I ? 
An infant crying in the night : 
An infant crying for the light : 
And with no language but a cry. 

Ibid. liii. 

So careful of the type she seems, 
So careless of the single life. ibid. liv. 

The great world's altar-stairs, 
That slope through darkness up to God. 

Ibid. liv. 

Who battled for the true, the just. ibid. lv. 

And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
And breasts the blows of circumstance. 

Ibid, lxiii. 

And lives to clutch the golden keys, 
To mould a mighty state's decrees, 
And shape the whisper of the throne. 

Ibid, lxiii. 

So many worlds, so much to do, 
So little done, such things to be. 

Ibid, lxxii. 

Thy leaf has perished in the green. 

Ibid, lxxiv. 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, 
Believe me, than in half the creeds. 

Ibid. xcv. 



524 Kemble. 

[Tennyson continued. 

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky. 

In Me?noriam. cv. 

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, 
But ring the fuller minstrel in. ibid. 

( Ring out old shapes of foul disease, 

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; 

Ring out the thousand wars of old, 
Ring in the thousand years of peace. 
Ring in the valiant man and free, 

The eager heart, the kindlier hand ; 

Ring out the darkness of the land, 
Ring in the Christ that is to be.^ ibid. 

And thus he bore without abuse 
The grand old name of gentleman, 
Defamed by every charlatan, 

And soil'd with all ignoble use. ibid. ex. 

One God, one law, one element, 
And one far-off divine event, 
To which the whole creation moves. 

Ibid. Conclusion. 



FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. 

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, 
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, 
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. 
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, 
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. 

Lines addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the 
Lenox Academy, Mass, 



Whit tier. — Poe. — Layard. 525 



JOHN G. WHITTIER. 

The hope of all who suffer, 
The dread of all who wrong. 

The Mantle of St. John De Matha. 

Making their lives a prayer. 

On receiving a Basket of Sea Mosses. 

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, 
The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " 

Maud Midler. 



EDGAR A. POE. 1811-1849. 

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my 
chamber door, — 
Perched, and sat, and nothing more. 

The Raven. 

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy 
form from off my door ! 
Quoth the Raven : " Nevermore." ibid. 



A. H. LAYARD. 

I have always believed that success would be 
the inevitable result if the two services, the 
army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent 
the right man to fill the right place. 

Speech, January 15, 1855. Hansard, Pari. Debates, 
Third Series, Vol. 138, p. 2077. 



526 Spragne. — Greene. — Cranch. 

CHARLES SPRAGUE. 

Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, 
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. 

Curiosity. 

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, 
An incarnation of fat dividends. Ibid. 

Behold ! in Liberty's unclouded blaze 
We lift our heads, a race of other days. 

Centennial Ode. St. 22. 

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, 

In learned doctors' spite ; 
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, 

And lap me in delight. To my Cigar. 

ALBERT G. GREENE. 1802 -1867. 

Old Grimes is dead, — that good old man, — 

We ne'er shall see him more : 
He used to wear a long black coat, 

All buttoned down before. old Grimes. 



CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH. 

Thought is deeper than all speech ; 

Feeling deeper than all thought ; 

Souls to souls can never teach 

What unto themselves was taught. 

Stanzas. 



Emerson, 527 



RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 

Not from a vain or shallow thought 
His awful Jove young Phidias brought. 

The Problem. 
Out from the heart of Nature rolled 
The burdens of the Bible old. ibid. 

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 

And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 

Wrought in a sad sincerity ; 

Himself from God he could not free ; 

He builded better than he knew ; — 

The conscious stone to beauty grew. ibid. 

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon 

As the best gem upon her zone. ibid. 

Good-bye, proud world ! I 'm going home : 
Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine. 

Good-Bye. 
What are they all in their high conceit, 
When man in the bush with God may meet ? 

Ibid. 
If eyes were made for seeing, 
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 

The Rhodora. 
The silent organ loudest chants 

The masters requiem. Dirge. 

Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument. 



528 Halleck. 



FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 

Strike — for your altars and your fires ; 
Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; 
God, and your native land ! Marco Bozzaris. 

Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 

Come to the mother's, when she feels, 
For the first time, her first-born's breath ; 

Come when the blessed seals 
That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke ; 
Come in consumption's ghastly form, 
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; 
Come when the heart beats high and warm, 

With banquet song, and dance, and wine ; 
And thou art terrible, — the tear, 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 

Of agony are thine. Ibid. 

But to the hero, when his sword 
Has won the battle for the free, 

Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; 

And in its hollow tones are heard 

The thanks of millions yet to be. ibid. 

One of the few, the immortal names, 

That were not born to die. Ibid. 

Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days ; 



Smith. 529 

Halleck continued.] 

None knew thee but to love thee/ 
Nor named thee but to praise. 

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. 

Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, 
Shrines to no code or creed confined, — 

The Delphian vales, the Palestines, 

The Meccas of the mind. Bums. 

They love their land, because it is their own, 
And scorn to give aught other reason why ; 

Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, 
And think it kindness to his majesty. 

Connecticut. 



ALEXANDER SMITH. 1830 -1867. 

Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 

A Life Drama. Sc. ii. 

In winter when the dismal rain 
Came down in slanting lines, 

And Wind, that grand old harper, smote 
His thunder-harp of pines. ibid. 

A poem round and perfect as a star. ibid. 

1 Cf. Rogers, Jacqueline. 



23 HH 



530 Longfellow. 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 

Look, then, into thine heart, and write ! 

Voices of the Night. Prelude. 

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 
" Life is but an empty dream ! " 

For the soul is dead that slumbers, 
And things are not what they seem. 

A Psalm of Life. 

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 1 

And our hearts, though stout and brave, 

Still, like muffled drums, are beating 

Funeral marches to the grave. ibid. 

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! 

Let the dead Past bury its dead ! ibid. 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And, departing, leave behind us 

Footprints on the sands of time. ibid. 

Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor, and to wait. Ibid. 

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, 

And, with his sickle keen, 
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 

And the flowers that grow between. 

The Reaper and the Flowers. 

1 Ars longa, vita brevis. — Hippocrates, Aphorism i. 



Longfellow, 531 

The star of the unconquered will. 

The Light of Stars. 

O, fear not in a world like this, 
And thou shalt know erelong, — 

Know how sublime a thing it is 

To suffer and be strong. ibid. 

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, 
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, 

When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, 
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. 

Flowers. 

The hooded clouds, like friars, 
Tell their beads in drops of rain. 

Midnight Mass. 

No tears 
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. 

Sii7irise on the Hills. 

No one is so accursed by fate, 

No one so utterly desolate, 

But some heart, though unknown, 
Responds unto his own. Endymion. 

For Time will teach thee soon the truth, 
There are no birds in last year's nest ! 

// is not always May. 

This is the place. Stand still, my steed, 

Let me review the scene, 
And summon from the shadowy Past 

The forms that once have been. 

A Gleam of Sunshine, 



532 L ongfellow. 

Standing, with reluctant feet, 
Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet ! 

Maidenhood. 
O thou child of many prayers ! 
Life hath quicksands, — life hath snares ! 

Ibid. 
The day is done, and the darkness 

Falls from the wings of Night, 
As a feather is wafted downward 
From an eagle in his flight. 

The Day is Done. 

A feeling of sadness and longing, 

That is not akin to pain, 
And resembles sorrow only 

As the mist resembles the rain. ibid. 

And the night shall be filled with music, 
And the cares that infest the day 

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 

And as silently steal away. Ibid. 

This is the forest primeval. 

Evangeline. Part I. 

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing 
of exquisite music. Ibid. Part i,i. 

Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots 
of the angels. Ibid. Part i, iii. 

Into a world unknown, — the corner-stone of a 
nation ! * The Courtship of Miles Standish. 

1 Plymouth Rock. 



Longfellow. 533 

O suffering, sad humanity ! 
O ye afflicted ones, who lie 
Steeped to the lips in misery, 
Longing, and yet afraid to die, 
Patient, though sorely tried ! 

The Goblet of Life. 

Sail on, O Ship of State ! 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! 
Humanity with all its fears, 
With all the hopes of future years, 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 

The Building of the Ship. 

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, 
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, 
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, 
Are all with thee, — are all with thee ! ibid. 

There is no flock, however watched and tended, 

But one dead lamb is there ! 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 

But has one vacant chair. Resignation. 

The air is full of farewells to the dying, 

And mournings for the dead. ibid. 

There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call Death. ibid. 

In the elder davs of Art, 

Builders wrought with greatest care 



534 Longfellow. 

Each minute and unseen part ; 
For the gods see everywhere. 

The Builders. 

Time has laid his hand 
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, 
But as a harper lays his open palm 
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. 

The Golde?i Legend. 

The leaves of memory seemed to make 
A mournful rustling in the dark. 

The Fire of Drift-wood. 

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, 

Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours 

Weeping upon his bed has sate, 

He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. 

From Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Motto, Hyperio7i. Book i. 

Something the heart must have to cherish, 
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn ; 

Something with passion clasp or perish, 
And in itself to ashes burn. 

Motto, Hyperion. Book ii. 

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they 

grind exceeding small ; l 
Though with patience He stands waiting, with 

exactness grinds He all. 

Retributio7i. From the Sinngedichte of Friedrich 
von Logau. 

1 '0\^€ Oeov fxi)\oL akeovai to XenTou akevpov. — Ora- 
cida Sibyllina, Lib. viii. L. 14. 



Holmes. 535 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 

# The freeman casting with unpurchased hand 
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. 

Poetry -, a Met?'ical Essay. 

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! 

Long has it waved on high, 
And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky. ibid. 

Nail to the mast her holy flag, 

Set every threadbare sail, 
And give her to the God of storms, 

The lightning and the gale. 

Ibid. 

When the last reader reads no more. 

The Last Reader, 

The mossy marbles rest 
On the lips that he has prest 

In their bloom ; 
And the names he loved to hear 
Have been carved for many a year 

On the tomb. The Last Leaf. 

I know it is a sin 
For me to sit and grin 

At him here ; 
But the old three-cornered hat, 
And the breeches, and all that, 

Are so queer ! ibid. 



m 



536 Holmes. 

Thou say'st an undisputed thing 
In such a solemn way. 

To an Insect. 

Thine eye was on the censer, 
And not the hand that bore it. 

Lines by a Clerk. 

Where go the poet's lines ? 

Answer, ye evening tapers ! 
Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, 

Speak from your folded papers ! 

The Poefs Lot. 

Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, 
Like hedgehogs dressed in lace. 

The Music- Grinders. 

You think they are crusaders, sent 

From some infernal clime, 
To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, 

And dock the tail of Rhyme, 
To crack the voice of Melody, 

And break the legs of Time. ibid. 

And, since, I never dare to write 
As funny as I can. 

The Height of the Ridiculous. 

Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, 
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor ! 

Urania. 

And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, 
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. 

Ibid. 



A dams. — Cook. 537 

Holmes continued.] 

You hear that boy laughing? — you think he 's 

all fun ; 
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; 
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, 
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest 

of all ! The Boys. 

Boston State-House is the hub of the Solar 
System. You could n't pry that out of a Bos- 
ton man if you had the tire of all creation 
straightened out for a crowbar. 

The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, p. 143. 



SARAH FLOWER ADAMS. 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee ! 
E'en though it be a cross 

That raiseth me ; 
Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee ! 



ELIZA COOK. 

I love it — I love it, and who shall dare 
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair ! 

The Old A rm - Chair. 
23* 



53^ Dickens, 

CHARLES DICKENS. 
In a Pickwickian sense. Pickwick. Ch. i. 

Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, 

That creepeth o'er ruins old ! 
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, 

In his cell so lone and cold. 
Creeping where no life is seen, 

A rare old plant is the Ivy green. 

Ibid. Ch. vi. 

He's tough, ma'am, tough is J. B. Tough 
and de-vilish sly. Dombey and Son. Ch. vii. 

When found, make a note of. ibid. Ch. xv. 

The bearings of this observation lays in the 
application on it. ibid. Ch. xxiii. 

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body ! 

Nicholas Nickleby. Ch. xxxiv. 

My Life is one demd horrid grind. 

Ibid. Ch. lxiv. 
Barkis is willin'. David Copperfidd. Ch. v. 

Whatever was required to be done, the Cir- 
cumlocution Office was beforehand with all the 
public departments in the art of perceiving how 

NOT TO DO IT. Little Dorrit. Ch. x. 

In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial 
smile. Christmas Ca7'ol. Stave two. 



Lowell, 539 



JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 
*T is only God may be had for the asking. 

The Vision of Sir Launfal. 

And what is so rare as a day in June ? 

Then, if ever, come perfect days ; 

Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, 

And over it softly her warm ear lays. 

Ibid, 

This child is not mine as the first was, 

I cannot sing it to rest, 
I cannot lift it up fatherly 

And bless it upon my breast ; 

Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, 
And sits in my little one's chair, 

And the light of the heaven she 's gone to 
Transfigures its golden hair. 

The Changeling, 

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. 

Sonnet xxv. 

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 

Irene, 

Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on 

the throne. The Present Crisis. 

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made 
US men. The Capture. 



OLD TESTAMENT. 



It is not good that the man should be alone. 

Genesis ii. 18. 

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. 
.... For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
thou return. Gen. iii. 19. 

The mother of all living. Gen. iii. 20. 

Am I my brother's keeper ? Gen. iv. 9. 

My punishment is greater than I can bear. 

Gen. iv. 13. 

There were giants in the earth in those days. 

Gen. vi. 4. 

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her 

foot. Gen. viii. 9. 

* Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall 
his blood be shed. Gen. ix. 6. 

In a good old age. Gen. xv. 15. 

His hand will be against every man, and every 
man's hand against him. Gen. xvi. 12. 

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the 

grave. Gen. xlii. 38. 

23* 



Old Testament. 541 

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

Genesis xlix. 4. 

I have been a stranger in a strange land. 

Exodus ii. 22. 

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 

. Ex. iii. 8. Jer. xxxii. 22. 

Darkness which may be felt. Ex. x. 21. 

The Lord went before them by day in a pillar 
of a cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night 
in a pillar of fire. Ex. xiii. 21. 

Man doth not live by bread only. 

Deute?'oiiomy viii. 3. 

The wife of thy bosom. Deut. xiii. 6. 

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, 
foot for foot. Deut. xix. 21. 

The secret things belong unto the Lord our 
God. Deut. xxix. 29. 

He kept him as the apple of his eye. 

Deut. xxxii. 10. 

As thy days, so shall thy strength be. 

Deut. xxxiii. 25. 

I am going the way of all the earth. 

Joshua xxiii. 14. 

I arose a mother in Israel. Judges v. 7. 

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 

Judges v. 25. 



542 Old Testament. 

The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. 

Judges xvi. 9. 
For whither thou goest, I will go ; and where 
thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall be 
my people, and thy God my God. Ruth i. 16. 

Quit yourselves like men. 1 Samuel iv. 9. 

Is Saul also among the prophets ? 

1 Sam. x. II. 

A man after his own heart. 1 Sam. xiii. 14. 

Tell it not in Gath ; publish it not in the 
streets of Askelon. 2 Sam. i. 20. 

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant 
in their lives, and in their death they were not 
divided. 2 Sam. i. 23. 

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the 
battle ! 2 Sam. i. 25. 

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy 
love to me was wonderful, passing the love of 
women. 2 Sam. i. 26. 

Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown. 

2 Sam. x. 5. 

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 

2 Sam. xii. 7. 

And are as water spilt on the ground, which 
cannot be gathered up again. 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 

A proverb and a by-word among all people. 

I Kings ix. 7. 



Old Testament. 543 

How long halt ye between two opinions ? 

I Kings xviii. 21. 

Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the 
sea, like a man's hand. i Kings xviii 44. 

A still, small voice. 1 Kings xix. 12. 

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast 
himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. n. 

There is death in the pot. 2 Kings iv. 40. 

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this 
great thing ? 2 Kings viii. 13. 

And the driving is like the driving of Jehu, 
the son oi Nimshi : for he driveth furiously. 

2 Kings ix. 20. 

One that feared God and eschewed evil. 

Job L 1. 
And Satan came also. job i. 6. 

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and 
naked shall I return thither : the Lord gave, and 
the Lord hath taken away • blessed be the name 
of the Lord. job i. 21. 

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he 
give for his life. job ii. 4. 

There the wicked cease from troubling, and 
there the weary be at rest. job iii. 17. 

In thoughts from the visions of the night, 
when deep sleep falleth on men. 

Job iv. 13 ; xxxiii. 15. 



544 Old Testament, 

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly 
upward. job v. 7. 

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 

Job v. 13. 

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, 
like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. 

Job v. 26. 

How forcible are right words ! job vi. 25. 

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. 

Job vii. 6. 

He shall return no more to his house, neither 
shall his place know him any more. 1 

Job vii. 10. Cf. xvi. 22. 

I would not live alway. job vii. 16. 

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to 
the land of darkness and the shadow of death. 

Job x. 21. 

Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with 
you. Job xii. 2. 

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, 
and full of trouble. job xiv. 1. 

Miserable comforters are ye all. job xvi. 2. 

The King of terrors. job xviii. 14. 

1 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the 
place thereof shall know it no more. — Psalm ciii. 16. 

Usually quoted, " The place that has known him shall 
know him no more." 



Old Testament. 545 

I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 

Job xix. 20. 
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. 

Job xix. 28. 

The price of wisdom is above rubies. 

Job xxviii. 18. 

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; 
and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. 

Job xxix. n. 

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 

yob xxix. 13. 

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the 
lame. job xxix. 15. 

The house appointed for all living. 

yob xxx. 23. 

Oh .... that mine adversary had written a 
book ! y b xxxi. 25. 

He multiplied! words without knowledge. 

yob xxxv. 16. 
Who is this that clarkeneth counsel by words 
without knowledge ? job xxxviii. 2. 

When the morning stars sang together, and all 
the sons of God shouted for joy. job xxxviii. 7. 

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and 
here shall thy proud waves be stayed. 

Job xxxviii. 11. 

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Plei- 
ades, or loose the bands of Orion ? 

Job xxxviii. 31. 
II 



546 Old Testament. 

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and 
he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of 
the captains and the shouting. job xxxix. 25. 

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook ? 

Jobxli. 1. 

His heart is as firm as a stone ; yea, as hard as 
a piece of the nether millstone. job xli. 24. 

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. 

Job xli. 31. 

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the 
ear : but now mine eye seeth thee. job xlii. 5. 

His leaf also shall not wither. Psalm i. 3. 

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. 

Ps. viii. 2. 

Thou hast made him a little lower than the 
angels. p s . viii. 5. 

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no 

God. p s . xiv. I ; liii. I. 

He that svveareth to his own hurt, and chang- 
eth not. ps. xv. 4. 

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. 

Ps. xvi. 6. 

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me 
under the shadow of thy wings. p s . xvii. 8. 

The sorrows of death compassed me. 

Ps. xviii. 4. 



Old Testament. 547 

Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 

Psalm xviii. to. 

The heavens declare the glory of God ; and 
the firmament showeth his handywork. 

Ps. xix. 1. 

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto 
night sheweth knowledge. p s . xix. 2. 

I may tell all my bones. p s . xxii. 17. 

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 
he leadeth me beside the still waters. 

Ps. xxiii. 2. 

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

Ps. xxiii. 4. 

From the strife of tongues. Ps. xxxi. 20. 

He fashioneth their hearts alike. 

Ps. xxxiii. 15 
I have been young, and now am old ; yet have 
I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed 
begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25. 

Spreading himself like a green bay-tree. 

Ps. xxxvii. 35. 

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. 

Ps. xxxvii. 37. 

While I was musing the fire burned. 

Ps- xxxix. 3. 

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the 
measure of my days, what it is ; that I may 
know how frail I am. Ps. xxxix. 4. 



548 Old Testament. 

Verily every man at his best state is altogether 
vanity. Psalm xxxix. 5. 

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who 
shall gather them. p s . xxxix. 6. 

Blessed is he that considereth the poor. 

Ps. xli. 1. 

As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 

Ps. xlii. 1. 

Deep calleth unto deep. Ps. xlii. 7. 

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 

Ps. xlv. 1. 

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole 
earth, is Mount Zion, .... the city of the great 
King. Ps. xlviii. 2. 

Man being in honour abideth not; he is like 
the beasts that perish. p s . xlix. 12, 20. 

The cattle upon a thousand hills. p s . l. 10. 

Oh that I had wings like a dove ! p s . lv. 6. 

We took sweet counsel together. p s . lv. 14. 

The words of his mouth were smoother than 
butter, but war was in his heart. p s . lv. 21. 

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth 
her ear ; which will not hearken to the voice of 
charmers, charming never so wisely. 

Ps. lviii. 4, 5. 

Vain is the help of man. p s . lx. 11 ; cviii. 12. 



Old Testament, 549 

He shall come down like rain upon the mown 
grass. Psalm lxxii. 6. 

His enemies shall lick the dust. p s . lxxii. 9. 

As a dream when one awaketh. p s . lxxih. 20. 

For promotion cometh neither from the east, 
nor from the west, nor from the south. 

Ps. lxxv. 6. 

He putteth down one and setteth up another. 

Ps. lxxv. 7. 

They go from strength to strength. 

Ps. lxxxiv. 7. 

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 
I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of 
my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 

Ps. lxxxiv. 10. 

Mercy and truth are met together : righteous- 
ness and peace have kissed each other. 

Ps. lxxxv. 10. 

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as 
yesterday when it is past. Ps. xc. 4. 

We spend our years as a tale that is told. 

Ps. xc. 9. 

The days of our years are threescore years 
and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be 
fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and 
sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 

Ps. xc. 10. 



550 Old Testament, 

So teach us to number our days, that we may- 
apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm xc. 12. 

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in dark- 
ness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at 
noonday. p s . xci. 6. 

As for man his days are as grass ; as a flower 
of the field so he flourisheth. p s . ciii. 15. 

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; 
and the place thereof shall know it no more. 

Ps. ciii. 16. 

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. 

Ps. civ. 15. 

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his 
labour until the evening. p s . civ. 23. 

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do 
business in great waters. p s . cvii. 23. 

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunk- 
en man, and are at their wit's end. p s . cvii. 27. 

I said in my haste, All men are liars. 

Ps. cxvi. 11. 

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death 
of his saints. p s . cxvi. 15. 

The stone which the builders refused is be- 
come the head stone of the corner. 

Ps. cxviii. 22. 

A lamp unto my feet and a light unto my 
path. Ps. cxix. 105. 



Old Testament. 5 5 1 

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the 
moon by night. Psalm cxxi. 6. 

Peace be within thy walls and prosperity with- 
in thy palaces. Ps. cxxii. 7. 

He giveth his beloved sleep. p s . cxxvii. 2. 

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of 
them. p s . cxxvii. 5. 

Thy children like olive-plants round about thy 
table. Ps. cxxviii. 3. 

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber 
to mine eyelids. p s . cxxxii. 4 ; Prov. vi. 4. 

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for 
brethren to dwell together in unity. 

Ps. cxxxiii. 1. 

We hanged our harps upon the willows. 

Ps. cxxxvii. 2. 

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right 
hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. 

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell 
in the uttermost parts of the sea. p s . cxxxix. 9. 

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Ps. cxxxix. 14. 

Put not your trust in princes. Ps. cxlvi. 3. 

Wisdom crieth without \ she uttereth her voice 
in the Street. Proverbs i. 20. 



S5 2 Old Testament. 

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all 
her paths are peace. Proverbs hi. 17. 

Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get 
wisdom ; and with all thy getting get under- 
standing. Prov. iv. 7. 

The path of the just is as the shining light, 
that shineth more and more unto the perfect 
day. Prov. iv. 18. 

Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her 
ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6. 

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little 
folding of the hands to sleep. 

Prov. vi. 10 ; xxiv. 33. 

So shall thy poverty come as one that travel- 
leth, and thy want as an armed man. 

Prov. vi. II. 

As an ox goeth to the slaughter. 

Prov. vii. 22. Jer. xi. 19. 

Wisdom is better than rubies. Prov. viii. 11. 

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in 
secret is pleasant. Prov. ix. 17. 

He knoweth not that the dead are there ; 
and that tier guests are in the depths of hell. 

Prov. ix. 18. 

A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. 

The memory of the just is blessed. 

Prov. x. 7. 



Old Testament. 553 

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

Proverbs xi. 14 ; xxiv. 6. 

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart 
for it. Prov. xi. 15. 

A righteous man regardeth the life of his 
beast ; but the tender mercies of the wicked 
are cruel. p r ov. xii. 10. 

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. 

Prov. xiii. 12. 
The way of transgressors is hard. 



He that spare th his rod hateth his son. 

Prov. xiii. 24. 

Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. 

The heart knoweth his own bitterness ; and a 
stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 

Prov. xiv. 10. 

The prudent man looketh well to his going. 

Prov. xiv. 15. 

Righteousness exalteth a nation. 

Prov. xiv. 34. 

A soft answer turneth away wrath. 

Prov. xv. 1. 

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. 

Prov. xv. 13. 

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than 
a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 

Prov. xv. 17. 
24 



554 Old Testament. 

A word spoken in due season, how good is it ! 

Proverbs xv. 23. 

A man's heart deviseth his way ; but the Lord 
directeth his steps. Prov. xvi. 9. 

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty 
spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18. 

The hoary head is a crown of glory. 

Prov. xvi. 31. 

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of 
him that hath it. p r ov xvii. 8. 

He that repeateth a matter separateth very 
friends. Prov. xvii. 9. 

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. 

Prov. xvii. 27. 

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is 
counted wise. Prov. xvii. 28. 

A wounded spirit who can bear ? 

Prov. xviii. 14. 

A man that hath friends must show himself 
friendly ; and there is a friend that sticketh 
closer than a brother. p r ov. xviii. 24. 

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto 
the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. 

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. 

Prov. xx. 1. 
Every fool will be meddling. Prov. xx. 3. 



Old Testament. 555 

The hearing ear and the seeing eye. 

Proverbs xx. 12. 

It is better to dwell in a corner of the house- 
top, than with a brawling woman in a wide 
house. Pro-j. xxi. 9. 

A good name is rather to be chosen than 
great riches. Prau. xxii. 1. 

Train up a child in the way he should go ; 
and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Prov. xxii. 6. 

The borrower is servant to the lender. 

Prov. xxii. 7. 

Remove not the ancient landmark. 

Prov. xxii. 2S ; xxiii. 10. 

Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he 
shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand be- 
fore mean men. Prau. xxii. 29. 

For riches certainly make themselves wings. 

Prov. xxiii. 5. 

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. 

Prov. xxiii. 7. 

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 

Prov. xxiii. 21. 

Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red; 
when it giveth his colour in the cup ; .... at 
the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like 
an adder. Prov. xxiii. 31, 32. 



55^ Old Testament. 

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy 

Strength is small. Proverbs xxiv. 10. 

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in 
pictures of silver. p r ov. xxv. n. 

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. 

Prov. xxv. 22. 

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good 
news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. 

Answer a fool according to his folly. 

Prov. xxvi. 5. 

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? 
there is more hope of a fool than of him. 

Prov. xxvi. 12. 

There is a lion in the way ; a lion is in the 
Streets. Prov. xxvi. 13. 

Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that 
can render a reason. Prov. xxvi. 16. 

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. 

Prov. xxvi. 27. 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou 
knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

Prov. xxvii. 1. 

Open rebuke is better than secret love. 

Prov. xxvii. 5. 

Faithful are the wounds of a friend. 

Prov. xxvii. 6. 



Old Testament. 557 

A continual dropping in a very rainy clay and 
a contentious woman are alike. Proverbs xxvii. 15. 

Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth 
the countenance of his friend. Prov. xxvii. 17. 

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar 
among wheat, with a pestle, yet will not his 
foolishness depart from him. p r ov. xxvii. 22. 

The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but 
the righteous are bold as a lion. 

Prov. xxviii. I. 

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be 
innocent. p r0 v. xxviii. 20. 

Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me 
neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food 
convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. 

The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, 
Give, give. Prov. xxx. 15. 

Her children arise up and call her blessed. 

Prov xxxi. 28. 

Vanity of vanities, .... all is vanity. 

Ecclesiastes i. 2 ; xii. 8. 

One generation passeth away and another 
generation cometh. Ecdes. i. 4. 

The eye is not satisfied with seeing. 

Ecdes. i. 8. 

There is no new thing under. the sun. 

Ecdes. i. 9. 



558 Old Testament. 

All is vanity and vexation of spirit. 

Ecclesiasies i. 14. 

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sor- 
row. * Eccles. i. 18. 

One event happeneth to them all. 

Eccles. ii. 14. 

To everything there is a season, and a time to 
every purpose under the heaven. Eccles. iii. 1. 

A threefold cord is not quickly broken. 

Eccles. iv. 12. 

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth ; there- 
fore let thy words be few. Eccles. v. 2. 

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than 
that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 

Eccles. v. 5. 

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet. 

Eccles. v. 12. 

A good name is better than precious ointment. 

Eccles. vii. 1. 

It is better to go to the house of mourning 
than to go to the house of feasting. 

Eccles. vii. 2. 

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is 
the laughter of a fool. Eccles. vii. 6. 

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the 
day of adversity consider. Eccles. vii. 14. 

Be not righteous overmuch. Eccles. vii. 16. 



Old Testament. 559 

God hath made man upright; but they have 
sought out many inventions. Ecdesiastes vii. 29. 

There is no discharge in that war. 

Eccles. viii. 8. 

To eat and to drink and to be merry. 

Eccles. viii. 15. Luke xii. 19. 

For a living dog is better than a dead lion. 

Eccles. ix. 4. 

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with 
thy might ; for there is no work, nor device, nor 
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave. 

Eccles. ix. 10. 

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to 
the strong. But time and chance happeneth to 
them all. Eccles. ix. 11. 

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothe- 
cary to send forth a stinking savour. 

Eccles. x. 1. 

For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and 
that which hath wings shall tell the matter. 

Eccles. x. 20. 

Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt 
find it after many days. Eccles. xi. 1. 

In the place where the tree falleth, there it 
shall be. Eccles. xi. 3. 

He that observe th the wind shall not sow ; 
and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 

Eccles. xi. 4. 



560 Old Testament. 

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the even- 
ing withhold not thine hand. Ecdesiastes xi. 6. 

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing 
it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Ecdes. xi. 7. 

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth. 

Ecdes. xi. 9. 

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy 
youth. Ecdes. xii. 1. 

And the grinders cease because they are few, 
and those that look out of the windows be dark- 
ened. Ecdes. xii. 3. 

And the grasshopper shall be a burden, and 
desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long 
home, and the mourners go about the streets. 

Ecdes. xii. 5. 

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the 
golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be 
broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at 
the cistern. Ecdes. xii. 6. 

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it 
was; and the spirit shall return unto God who 
gave it. Ecdes. xii. 7. 

The words of the wise are as goads, and as 
nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. 

Ecdes. xii. 11. 
Of making many books there is no end \ and 
much study is a weariness of the flesh. 

Ecdes. xii. 12. 



Old Testament. 561 

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole 
matter : Fear God and keep his command- 
ments \ for this is the whole duty of man. 

Ecclesiastes xii. 13. 

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and 
gone ; the flowers appear on the earth \ the 
time of the singing of birds is come, and the 
voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 

The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12. 

The little foxes, that spoil the vines. 

The Song of Solomon 11. 15. 

Terrible as an army with banners. 

The Song of Solomon vi. 4, 10. 

Like the best wine, .... that goeth down 
sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep 

to Speak. The Song of Solomon vii. 9. 

Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel 
as the grave. The Song of Solomon viii. 6. 

Many waters cannot quench love. 

The Song of Solomon viii. 7. 

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his 
master's crib. Isaiah i. 3. 

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart 
faint. is. i. 5. 

They shall beat their swords into plough- 
shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks ; 
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any more. 

Is. ii. 4. Mic. iv. 3. 
24* JJ 



562 Old Testament. 

In that day a man shall cast his idols .... 
to the moles and to the bats. Isaiah ii. 20. 

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his 
nostrils. i s . ii. 22. 

Grind the faces of the poor. is. Hi. 15. 

In that day seven women shall take hold of 
one man. is. iv. 1. 

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good 
evil ! Is. v. 20. 

I am a man of unclean lips. is. vi. 5. 

Wizards that peep and that mutter. 

Is. viii. 19. 

To the law and to the testimony. 

Is. viii. 26. 

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and 
the leopard shall lie down with the kid. 

Is. xi. 6. 

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet 
thee at thy coming. i s . xiv. 9. 

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, 
son of the morning ! is. xiv. 12. 

Babylon is fallen, is fallen. is. xxi. 9. 

Let us eat and drink \ for to-morrow we shall 
die. is. xxii. 13. 

Fasten him as a nail in a sure place. 

Is. xxii. 23. 



Old Testament. 563 

Whose merchants are princes. Isaiah xxiii. 8. 

A feast of fat things. Is. xxv. 6. 

For precept must be upon precept, precept 
upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; 
here a little, and there a little. is. xxviii. 10. 

We have made a covenant with death, and 
with hell are we at agreement. is. xxviii. 15. 

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the 
rose. is. xxxv. 1. 

Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed. 

Is. xxxvi. 6. 

Set thine house in order. is. xxxviii. 1. 

All flesh is grass. is. xl. 6. 

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 
and are counted as the small dust of the balance. 

Is. xl. 15. 

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the 
smoking flax shall he not quench. 

Is. xlii. 3. 

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the 
wicked. j Si xlviii. 22. 

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. 

Is. liii. 7. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts. is. lv. 7. 



564 Old Testament, 

A little one shall become a thousand, and a 
small one a strong nation. Isaiah lx. 22. 

To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil 
of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for 
the spirit of heaviness. /r. hd. 3. 

I have trodden the wine-press alone. 

Is. lxiii. 3. 

We all do fade as a leaf. is. lxiv. 6. 

Peace, peace ; when there is no peace. 

Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11. 

Amend your ways and your doings. 

Jer. vii. 3 ; xxvi. 13. 

Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no phy- 
sician there ? Jer. viii. 22. 

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging- 
place of wayfaring men ! jer. ix. 2. 

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the 
leopard his spots ? jer. xiii. 23. 

As if a wheel had been in the midst of a 
wheel. Ezekiel x. 10. 

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the 
children's teeth are set on edge. 

Ez. xviii. 2. Jer. xxxi. 29. 

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art 
found wanting. Daniel v. 27. 



Old Testament, 565 

The thing is true, according to the law of the 
Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 

Daniel vi. 12. 

For they have sown the wind, and they shall 
reap the whirlwind. Rosea viii. 7. 

I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes. 

Hos. xii. 10. 

Your old men shall dream dreams, your young 
men shall see visions. Joel ii. 28. 

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of de- 
cision. Joel iii. 14. 

But they shall sit every man under his vine 
and under his fig-tree. Mkah iv. 4. 

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, 
that he may run that readeth it. 

Habakkuk ii. 2. 

I was wounded in the house of my friends. 

Zechariah xiii. 6. 
But unto you that fear my name shall the 
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his 
wings. Malachi iv. 2. 

Miss not the discourse of the elders. 

Ecclesiasticus viii. 9. 
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled there- 
with. E edits, xiii. 1. 

He will laugh thee to scorn. Ecdus. xiii. 7. 

Whose talk is of bullocks. 

Ecdus. xxx viii. 25. 



566 New Testament, 

Old Testament continued.] 

These were honourable men in their genera- 
tions. Ecclesiasticas xliv. 7. 

Great is truth, and mighty above all things. 

Esdras iv. 51. 

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before 
they be withered. Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8. 

And Nicanor lay dead in his harness. 

I Maccabees xv. 28. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 

Rachel weeping for her children, and would 
not be comforted, because they are not. 

Matthew ii. 18. Jer. xxxi. 15. 

Man shall not live by bread alone. 

Matt. iv. 4. Dent. viii. 3. 

Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt 
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? 

Matt. v. 13. 

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is 
set on an hill cannot be hid. Matt. v. 14. 

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left 
hand know what thy right hand doeth. 

Matt. vi. 3. 

Where your treasure is, there will your heart 
be also. Matt. vi. 21. 

Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. 

Matt. vi. 24. 



New Testament. 567 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 
they toil not, neither do they spin. 

Matthew vi. 28. 
Take therefore no thought for the morrow ; 
for the morrow shall take thought for the things 
of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil 
thereof. Matt. vi. 34. 

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. 

Matt. vii. 6. 
Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye 
shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto 
you. Matt. vii. 7. . 

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air 
have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where 
to lay his head. Matt. viii. 20. 

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labour- 
ers are few. Matt. ix. ^. 

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless 
as doves. Matt. x. 16. 

But the very hairs of your head are all num- 
bered. Matt. x. 30. 

But Wisdom is justified of her children. 

Matt. xi. 19. Luke vii. 35. 
The tree is known by his fruit. Matt. xii. 33. 

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh. Matt. xii. 34. 

Pearl of great price. Matt. xiii. 46. 



568 New Testament. 

A prophet is not without honour, save in his 
own country and in his own house. 

Matthew xiii. 57. 

Be of good cheer : it is I ; be not afraid. 

Matt. xiv. 27. 

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall 
into the ditch. Matt. xv. 14. 

Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from 
their masters' table. Matt. xv. 27. 

Get thee behind me, Satan. Matt. xvi. 23. 

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain 
the whole world, and lose his own soul ? 

Matt. xvi. 26. 

It is good for us to be here. Matt. xvii. 4. 

What therefore God hath joined together, let 
not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6. 

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye 
of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into 
the kingdom of God. Matt. xix. 24. 

Which have borne the burden and heat of the 
day. Matt. xx. 12. 

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with 
mine own ? Matt. xx. 15. 

For many are called, but few are chosen. 

Matt. xxii. 14. 



New Testament. 569 

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which 
are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are 
Gods. Matthew xxii. 21. 

Woe unto you, .... for ye pay tithe of mint 
and anise and cummin. Matt, xxiii. 23. 

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and 
swallow a camel. Matt, xxiii. 24. 

For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which 
indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within 
full of dead men's bones. Matt, xxiii. 27. 

As a hen gathereth her chickens under her 
wings. Matt, xxiii. 37. 

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the 
eagles be gathered together. Matt. xxiv. 28. 

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and 
he shall have abundance : but from him that 
hath not shall be taken away even that which 
he hath. Matt. xxv. 29. , 

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temp- 
tation : the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh 
is weak. Matt. xxvi. 41. 

The sabbath was made for man, and not man 
for the sabbath. Mark ii. 27. 

If a house be divided against itself, that house 
cannot stand. Mark iii. 25. 



57° New Testament. 

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 

Mark iv. 9. 

My name is Legion. Mark v. 9. 

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched. Mark ix. 44. 

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth 
peace, good will toward men. Luke ii. 14. 

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of 
the trees. Luke iii. 9. 

Physician, heal thyself. Luke iv. 23. 

The labourer is worthy of his hire. 

Luke x. 7. I Tini. v. 18. 

Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. ^. 

But one thing is needful : and Mary hath 
chosen that good part, which shall not be taken 
away from her. Luke x. 42. 

He that is not with me is against me. 

Luke xi. 23. 

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast 
much goods laid up for many years ; take thine 
ease, eat, drink, and be merry. Luke xii. 19. 

Let your loins be girded about, and your 
lights burning. Luke xii. 35. 

For the children of this world are in their 
generation wiser than the children of light. 

Luke xvi. 8. 



New Testament. 571 

It were better for him that a mill-stone were 
hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. 

Luke xvii. 2. 

Remember Lot's wife. Luke xvii. 32. 

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. 

Luke xix. 22. 

For if they do these things in a green tree, 
what shall be done in the dry? Luke xxiii. 31. 

Can there any good thing come out of Naza- 
reth ? y hn i. 46. 

The wind bloweth where it listeth. 

John iii. 8. 

He was a burning and a shining light. 

John v. 35. 

Gather up the fragments that remain, that 
nothing be lost. John vi. 12. 

Judge not according to the appearance. 

John vii. 24. 

The Truth shall make you free. 

John viii. 32. 

For the poor always ye have with you. 

John xii. 8. 

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness 
come upon you. John xii. 35. 

Let not your heart be troubled. John xiv. 1. 



572 New Testament. 

In my Father's house are many mansions. 

John xiv. 2. 

Greater love hath no man than this, that a 
man lay down his life for his friends. 

John xv. 13. 

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 

Acts ix. 5. 

Lewd fellows of the baser sort. Acts xvii. 5. 

The law is open. Ads xix. 38. 

It is more blessed to give than to receive. 

Ads xx. 35. 

Speak forth the words of truth and soberness. 

Acts xx vi. 25. 

For there is no respect of persons with God. 

Romans ii. 1 1. 

As some affirm that we say, Let us do evil 
that good may come. Rom. iii. 8. 

Fear of God before their eyes. Rom. iii. 18. 

Who against hope believed in hope. 

Rom. iv. 18. 

For the wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. 

And we know that all things work together for 
good to them that love God. Rom. viii. 28. 

A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 

Rom. x. 2. 
Be not wise in your own conceits. 

Rom. xii. 16. 



New Testament. 573 

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; 
if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou 
shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 

Romans xii. 20. 

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil 
with good. Rom. xii. 21. 

The powers that be are ordained of God. 

Rom. xiii. 1. 

Render therefore to all their dues. 

Rom. xiii. 7. 
Owe no man anything, but to love one an- 
other. Rom. xiii. 8. 

Love is the fulfilling of the law. 

Rom. xiii. 10. 

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own 
mind. Rom. xiv. 5. 

I have planted, Apollos watered ; but God 
gave the increase. 1 Corinthians iii. 6. 

Every man's work shall be made manifest. 

1 Cor. iii. 13. 

Not to think of men above that which is 
written. 1 1 Cor. iv. 6. 

Absent in body, but present in spirit. 

I Cor. v. 3. 

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth 
the whole lump ? 1 Cor. v. 6. 

1 Usually quoted, " to be wise above that which is 
written." 



574 New Testament. 

For the fashion of this world passeth away. 

I Corinthians vii. 31. 

I am made all things to all men. 

I Cor. ix. 22. 

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth 
take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. x. 12. 

As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

I Cor. xiii. 1. 

When I was a child, I spake as a child. 

1 Cor. xiii. 11. 

For now we see through a glass, darkly. 

I Cor. xiii. 12. 

Let all things be done decently and in order. 

1 Cor. xiv. 40. 

Be not deceived : evil communications cor- 
rupt good manners. 1 1 Cor. xv. ^. 

The first man is of the earth, earthy. 

1 Cor. xv. 47. 

In the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52. 

death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where 
is thy victory ? r Cor. xv. 55. 

Not of the letter, but of the spirit ; for the 
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

2 Cor. iii. 6. 

1 QSelpovo-iv ijQrj xph^Q' opikicu kcikcii. — Menander. 
Dubners edition of his Fragments, appended to Aris- 
tophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Grceca, p. 102, /. 101. 



New Testament 575 

We walk by faith, not by sight. 

2 Corinthians v. 7. 

Behold, now is the accepted time. 

2 Cor. vi. 2. 
By evil report and good report. 2 Car. vi. 8. 

The right hands of fellowship. Galatians ii. 9. 

For every man shall bear his own burden. 

Gal. vi. 5. 

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap. Gal vi. 7. 

Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go 
down upon your wrath. Ephesians iv. 26. 

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 

Philippians i. 21. 

Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is 
m their shame. Phil iii. 19. 

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things 
are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatso- 
ever things are pure, whatsoever things are 
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; 
if there be any virtue, and if there be any 
praise, think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. 

Touch not ; taste not ; handle not. 

Colossians ii. 21. 

Let your speech be always with grace, sea- 
soned with salt. Col. iv. 6. 

Remembering without ceasing your work of 
faith and labour of love. 1 Thessalonians i. 3. 



576 New Testamefit. 

Study to be quiet. i Thessaloniansvr. II. 

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

I Thess. v. 21. 

The law is good, if a man use it lawfully. 

I Timothy i. 8. 

Not greedy of filthy lucre. i Tim. iii. 3. 

Busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought 
not. 1 Tim. v. 13. 

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine 
for thy stomach's sake. 1 Tim. v. 23. 

For the love of money is the root of all evil. 

I Tim. vi. 10. 
Fight the good fight. 1 Tim. vi. 12. 

Rich in good works. 1 Tim. vi. 18. 

Science falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. 

I have fought a good fight, I have finished 
my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim. iv. 7. 

Unto the pure all things are pure. 

Titus i. 15. 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped 
for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Hebrews xi. I. 

Of whom the world was not worthy. 

Hebrews xi. 38. 

A cloud of witnesses. Heb. xii. 1. 



New Testa m en t. 577 

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. 

Heb. xii. 6. 

The spirits of just men made perfect. 

Heb. xii. 23. 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for 
thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

Heb. xiii. 2. 

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; 
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown 

of life. James i. 12. 

Behold, how great a matter a little fire kin- 

dleth ! James iii. 5. 

The tongue can no man tame ; it is an un- 
ruly evil. 1 James iii. 8. 

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

James iv. 7. 

Hope to the end. 1 Peter i. 13. 

Fear God. Honour the king. 1 p e ter ii. 17. 

Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 

I Peter iii. 4. 

Giving honour unto the wife as unto the 
weaker vessel. 1 p e ter iii. 7. 

Be ye all of one mind. 1 p e ter iii. 8. 

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 

I Peter iv. 8. 

1 Usually quoted, " The tongue is an unruly member." 
25 KK 



578 Book of Common Prayer. 

[New Testament continued. 

Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adver- 
sary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, 
seeking whom he may devour. i Peter v. 8. 

The dog is turned to his own vomit again. 

2 Peter ii. 22. 

Bowels of compassion. i John iii. 17. 

There is no fear in love \ but perfect love 
casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18. 

Be thou faithful unto death. Revelation ii. 10. 

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. 

Rev. ii. 27. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
the end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii. 13. 



BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 

We have left undone those things which we 
ought to have done ; and we have done those 
things which we ought not to have done. 

Morning Prayer. 

The noble army of martyrs. Ibid. 

Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or es- 
tate. Prayer for all Conditions of Men. 

Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. 

The Litany. 



Book of Common Prayer. 579 

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all un- 
charitableness. The Litany. 

The world, the flesh, and the devil. ibid. 

The kindly fruits of the earth. ibid. 

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. 

Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent. 

Renounce the devil and all his works. 

Baptism of Infants. 

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. 

Catechism. 

To keep my hands from picking and stealing. 

Ibid. 

To do my duty in that state of life unto which 
it shall please God to call me. ibid. 

An outward and visible sign of an inward and 
spiritual grace. Ibid. 

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever 

hold his peace. Solemnization of Matrimony. 

To have and to hold from this day forward, 
for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in 
sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 
till death us do part. Ibid. 

To love, cherish, and to obey. Ibid. 

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I 
thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I 
thee endow. ibid. 



580 Tate and Brady. 

[Book of Common Prayer continued. 

In the midst of life we are in death. 1 

The Burial Service. 

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in 
sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. 

Ibid. 

But it was even thou, my companion, my 
guide, and mine own familiar friend. 

The Psalter. Ts. lv. 14. 

The iron entered into his soul. 

Ts. cv. 18. 



TATE AND BRADY. 

And though he promise to his loss, 

He makes his promise good. -Ps. xv. 5. 

The sweet remembrance of the just 
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. 

Ts. xci. 4. 

1 This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have 
been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, 
while watching some workmen building a bridge at Mar- 
tinsbriicke, in peril of their lives. It forms the ground- 
work of Luther's antiphon De Morte. 



APPENDIX. 



A Cadmean victory. Greek Proverb. 

2vfjLfALcry6vT(DV de rfj vavfia^Lj], Kadfielrj tls vlktj tolotl 
<&(DKaL€V(TL iyevtro. Herod, i. 166. 

A Cadmean victory was one in which the victors 
suffered as much as their enemies. 

The half is more than the whole. 

Hr\itiov olde ktchtiv ocrcp irkeov fj/ju(rv ttcivtos. 

Hesiod, Works and Days, v. 40. 

To leave no stone unturned. 

ILdvra KLvrjaat irerpov. — Euripides, Heraclid. 1002. 

This may be traced to a response of the Delphic 
Oracle, given to Polycrates, as the best means of 
finding a treasure buried by Xerxes' general, Mar- 
donius. on the field of Plataea. The Oracle replied, 
UavTa \l6ov Kivti, Turn every stone. 

Corp. Parcemiogr. Grcec. \. p. 146. 

Hie blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church. 

Plures emcimur, quoties metimur a vobis ; se- 
men est sanguis Christianorum. 

Tertullian, Apologet., c. 50. 



582 Appendix. 

Man is a two-legged cutirnal without feathers. 

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged ani- 
mal without feathers, he (Diogenes) plucked a cock, 
and, bringing him into the school, said " Here is 
Plato's man." From which there was added to the 
definition, "with broad, flat nails." 

Diogenes Laertius, Lib. vi. c. ii. Vit. Diog. Ch. vi. § 40. 

I believe it, because it is impossible. 

Credo, quia impossibile. 

This is a misquotation of Tertullian, whose words 
are, 

Certum est, quia impossibile est. 

De Came Christi, c. 5. 

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 

Sed res docuit id verum esse quod in carminibus 
Appius ait, " Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae." 
Pseudo-Sallust. Epist. de Rep. Or din. ii. 1. 

Ccesar's wife should be above suspicion. 

Caesar was asked why he had divorced his wife. 
" Because," said he, " I would have the chastity of 
my wife clear even of suspicion." 

Plutarch, Life of Ccesar. Ch. 10. 

Strike, but hear. 

Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he was going 
to strike, Themistocles said " Strike if you will, but 
hear." Plutarch, Life of The?nistocles. 



Appendix. 583 

Where the shoe pinches. 

In the Life of ^milius Paulus, Plutarch relates 
the story of a Roman being divorced from his wife. 
" This person being highly blamed by his friends, 
who demanded, — was she not chaste? was she not 
fair ? — holding out his shoe asked them whether it 
was not new, and well made. Yet, added he, none 
of you can tell where it pinches me." 

To smell of the lamp. 

Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes. Ch. 8. 

Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. 

Inserit se tantis viris mulier alienigeni sanguinis : 
quae a Philippo rege temulento immerenter dam- 
nata, Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed so- 
brium. Veil. Maximus. Lib. vi. cap. 2. 

To call a spade a spade. 

Plutarch, Reg. et Imp. Apoph. Philip, xv. 

Ta ctvkcl crvica, rr]v (n<d<fir]v Se (TKcicfirjv ovofxdfav- 

Aristophanes, as quoted in Lucian, Qitom. Hist. 
sit coiiscrib. 41. 

Pegging the question. 

This is a common logical fallacy, petitio principiij 
and the first explanation of the phrase is to be 
found in Aristotle's Topica, viii. 13, where the five 
ways of begging the question are set forth. The 
earliest English work in which the expression is 
found is " The Arte of Logike plainlie set forth in 
our Pnglish Tongue, dr^c. 1584." 



584 Appejidix. 

The sinews of war, 

^Eschines {Adv. Ctesiph. ch. 53) ascribes to De- 
mosthenes the expression vTroTer^rjTai ra vevpa t<ov 
7rpayfjLdrcov, " the sinews of affairs are cut." Di- 
ogenes Laertius, in his Life of Bion (lib. iv. c. 7, 
§ 3), represents that philosopher as saying tov ifkov- 
tov elvai vevpa npaypaTcov, u that riches were the 
sinews of business," or, as the phrase may mean, " of 
the state." Referring, perhaps, to this maxim of 
Bion, Plutarch says in his Life of Cleomenes (c. 27), 
"He who first called money the sinews of the state 
seems to have said this with special reference to 
war." Accordingly, we find money called expressly 
rd vevpa tov noXepov, " the sinews of war," in Liba- 
nius, Orat. xlvi. (vol. ii. p. 477, ed. Reiske), and by 
the Scholiast on Pindar, Olymp. i. 4 (comp. Pho- 
tius, Lex. s. v. Meydvopos nXovrov). So Cicero Phi- 
lipp. v. 2, "nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam." 

Adding insult to injury. 

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man ; who, en- 
deavouring to crush it, gave himself a heavy blow. 
Then said the fly, jeeringly : " You wanted to re- 
venge the sting of a tiny insect with death ; what 
will you do to yourself, who have added insult to 

injury? " ^ . , ,. . 

Quid facies tibi, 

Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam ? 

Phaedrus, The Bald Man and the Fly. Book v. Fable 3. 

When at Rome, do as the Romans do. 

St. Augustine was in the habit of dining upon 
Saturday as upon Sunday ; but, being puzzled with 



Appendix. 585 

the different practices then prevailing (for they had 
begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), consulted St. 
Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did 
not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan 
saint was this : — 

" When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday ; 
when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday." 

" Ouando hie sum, non jejuno Sabbato : quando 
Romas sum, jejuno Sabbato." 

St. Augustine, Epistle xxxvi. to Casiclamcs. 

When they are at Rome, they do there as they 
see done. 

Burton, Anatoi7iy of Melancholy, Part iii. Sec. 4, 
Mem. 2, Subs, 1. 

I see the right, and I approve it too, 
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. 

Video meliora proboque ; 
Deteriora sequor. 
Ovid, Metamorphosis, Book vii. Line 29. Translated 
by Tate and Stonestreet, ed. Garth. 

The Art preservative of all arts. 

From the inscription upon the facade of the 
house at Harlem, formerly occupied by Laurent 
Koster or Coster, who is charged, among others, with 
the invention of printing. Mention is first made 
of this inscription about 1628. 

Memorle sacrum 

Typographia 

Ars artium omnium 

conservatrix. 

HlC PRIMUM INVENTA 

Circa annum MCCCCXL. 
25* 



5 86 Appendix. 

That same man, that runnith awaie, 
Maie again fight an other daie. 

Erasmus, Apothegms, Trans, by Udall, 1 542. 

For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that 's slain. 

Butler, Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3. 
He that fights and runs away 
May turn and fight another day ; 
But he that is in battle slain 
Will never rise to fight again. 
Ray's History of the Rebellion, p. 48. Bristol, 1752. 

For he who fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day ; 
But he who is in battle slain 
Can never rise and fight again. 
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Edited by Oliver 
Goldsmith (?) Vol. \\. p. 147. London, 1761. 

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus ilium 
magis Groecum versiculum secularis sententiae sibi 
adhibent. Qui fugicbat, rursus prccliabitur : ut 
et rursus forsitan fugiat. 

Tertullian, De Fuga in Perseculione, c. 10. 
The corresponding Greek, 

'Avjjp 6 (f)evya>v kcl\ irakiv /xa^^trerat, 
is ascribed to Menander in Diibner's edition of his 
Frag7ne7its (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's 
Bibliotheca Grcccd), p. 91. 

Qui fuit, peut revenir aussi ; 
Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi. 

Scarron (1610-1660). 
Souvent celuy qui demeure 
Est cause de son meschef ; 
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure 
Peut combattre derechef. 

From the Satyre Menippee, 1594. 



Appendix. 587 

Junius, Aprilis, Septemq ; Xouemq ; tricenos, 
Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, 
At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus. 

Harrison's Description of Britaine, prefixed to 
Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577. 

Thirty dayes hath Nouember, 
Aprill, June, and September, 
February hath xxviii alone, 
And all the rest have xxxi. 

Grafton's Chronicles of England, 1590. 

Thirty days hath September, 
April, June, and November, 
February eight-and-twenty all alone, 

And all the rest have thirty-one ; 
Unless that leap year doth combine, 
And give to February twenty-nine. 

The Return from Parnassus. London, 1606. 

Thirty days hath September, 
April, June, and November, 
All the rest have thirty-one 
Excepting February alone : 
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, 
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 

Common in the New England States. 

Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, 
Thirty days to each affix ; 
Every other thirty-one 
Except the second month alone. 
Common in Chester County, Pa. among the Friends. 

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months 
that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster. 
Butler, Dyefs Dry Dinner. 1599. 



588 Appendix. 

Old wood to burn ! Old wine to drink ! Old 
friends to trust ! Old authors to read! 

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say, in commen- 
dation of age, that age appeared to be best in these 
four things. 

Melchior, Floresta Espdhola de Apothegmas o senten- 
cias, &=c, ii. I. 20. Bacon, Apothegms •, 97. 

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins tooth- 
somest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash 
whitest ? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and 
old lovers are soundest. 

John Webster, Westward Ho. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

What find you better or more honourable than 
age ? Take the preheminence of it in everything : 
in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. 
Shakerly Marmion, The Antiquary. Act ii. Sc. I. 

I love everything that 's old. Old friends, old 
times, old manners, old books, old wine. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. Sc. I. 

Nose, nose, nose, nose, 

And who gave thee that jolly red nose ? 

Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, 
And that gave me my jolly red nose. 1 

Ravenscroft's, Deuteromela, Song No. 7. 1609. 

Begone, dull Care, I prithee begone from me ; 
Begone, dull Care, thou and I shall never agree. 
Playford's Musical Companion. 1687. 

1 Cf. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burn- 
ing Pestle, Act i. Sc. 3. 



Appendix. 5 89 

Fiat Justitia mat Ccelum. 

This phrase, used by Lord Mansfield in the case 
of King vs. Wilkes, Burrow's Reports, vol. iv., 2562 
(A. D.) 1770, is found in Ward's Simple Cobbler 
of A gg aw am in America. (First printed in 1647.) 

God always favours the heaviest battalions. 

Deos fortioribus adesse. 

Tacitus, Hist. Book iv. xvii. 

Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les gros escadrons 
contre les petits. 

Bussy Rabutin, Lettres, iv. 91. Oct. 18, 1677. 

Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit. II est 
yrai qu'il est augmente ; mais ce n'est rien en com- 
paraison des sots, et par malheur on dit que Dieu 
est toujours pour les gros bataillons. 

Voltaire to M. Le Riche, February 6, 1770. 

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman ? 
Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in 
Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of Eng- 
land. Vol. i. Ch. 17, Note 8. 

Now bething the, gentilman, 
How Adam dalf and Eve span. 
From a MS. of the i$t/i Century in the Brit- 
ish Museum. Songs and Carols. 

The same proverb existed in German. Agricola 
{Prov. No. 264). 

So Adam reutte, und Eva span ; 
Wer was da ein eddelman. 



590 Appendix. 

Die in the last ditch. 

To William of Orange may be ascribed this say- 
ing. When Buckingham urged the inevitable de- 
struction which hung over the United Provinces, 
and asked him whether he did not see that the 
Commonwealth was ruined, " There is one certain 
means," replied the prince, "by which I can be sure 
never to see my country's ruin, — / will die hi the 
last ditch" Hume, History of England. 1672. 

A Rowland for an Oliver. 

These were two of the most famous in the list of 
Charlemagne's twelve peers ; and their exploits are 
rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant by 
the old romancers, that from thence arose that say- 
ing, amongst our plain and sensible ancestors, of 
giving one a " Rowland for his Oliver," to signify 
the matching one incredible lie with another. 

Thomas Warburton. 

All is lost save honour. 

It was from the imperial camp near Pavia, that 
Francis the First, before leaving for Pizzighettone, 
wrote to his mother the memorable letter which, 
thanks to tradition, has become altered to the form 
of this sublime laconism : " Madame, tout est perdu 
fors 1'honneuiv' 

The true expression is, " Madame, pour vous faire 
savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, 
de toutes choses ne m'est demeure que Fhonneur et 
la vie qui est sauve." 

Martin, Histoire de France. Tom. viii. 



Appendix. 591 

Hobson's choice. 

Tobias Hobson was the first man in England 
that let out hackney horses. When a man came 
for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there 
was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the 
horse which stood next to the stable door ; so that 
every customer was alike well served according to 
his chance, from whence it became a proverb, when 
what ought to be your election was forced upon you, 
to say " Hobson's choice." Spectator. 1V0. 509. 



Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your 
powder dry. 

Colonel Blacker, Oliver's Advice. 1834. 

There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Crom- 
well. On a certain occasion, when his troops were 
about crossing a river to attack the enemy, he con- 
cluded an address, couched in the usual fanatic 
terms in use among them, with these words : " Put 
your trust in God ; but mind to keep your powder 
dry." Hayes's Ballads of Ireland. Vol \. p. 191. 

Am I not a man and a brother ? 

From a medallion by Wedgewood (1768), repre- 
senting a negro in chains, with one knee on the 
ground, and both hands lifted up to heaven. This 
was adopted as a characteristic seal by the Anti- 
slavery Society of London. 



592 Appendix. 

For angling-rod, he took a sturdy oak ; 
For line a cable, that in storm ne'er broke ; 

His hook was baited with a dragon's tail, 
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale. 
From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The 
Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in 
the years 1653 and 1677. Chambers's Book of Days. 
Vol. \. p. 173. 

In Chalmers's British Poets the following is as- 
cribed to William King (1663- 17 12). 

His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak ; 
His line a cable which in storms ne'er broke ; 
His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, 
And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. 

Upon a Gianfs Angling. 



As good as a play. 

An exclamation of Charles II. when in Parlia- 
ment attending the discussion of Lord Ross's Di- 
vorce Bill. 

The king remained in the House of Peers while his 
speech was taken into consideration, — a common 
practice with him ; for the debates amused his sated 
mind, and were sometimes, he used to say, as good 
as a comedy. 

Macaulay, Review of the Life and Writings of 
Sir William Temple. 

When ill doubt, win the trick. 

Hoyle, Twenty -four Rules for Learners. Rule 12. 



Appendix. 593 

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 

From an inscription on the cannon near which 
the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, 
on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Ja- 
maica. 

Stiles's History of the Three Judges of King Charles I. 

This supposititious epitaph was found among the 
papers of Mr. Jefferson, and in his handwriting. 
It was supposed to be one of Dr. Franklin's spirit- 
stirring inspirations. 

Randall's Life of Jefferson. Vol hi./. 585. 

Nation of shopkeepers. 

From an oration purporting to have been deliv- 
ered by Samuel Adams at the State House in Phila- 
delphia, August 1, 1776. Philadelphia, printed, 
London, reprinted for E. Johnson, No. 4 Ludgate 
Hill. MDCCLXXVI. 1 

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of 

raising up a people of customers may at first sight 

appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. Vol. ii. Book 

iv. Ch. vii. Part 3. 1775. 

And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a 
shopkeeping nation. 

Tucker, Dean of Gloucester. Tract. 1766. 

1 No such American edition has ever been seen, but 
at least four copies are known of the London issue. A 
German translation of this oration was printed in 1778, 
perhaps at Berne ; the place of publication is not given. — 
Wells's Life of Adams. 

LL 



594 Appendix. 

Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts. 

lis n'employent les paroles que pour deguiser 
leurs pensees. 

Voltaire, Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde. 

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism 
into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it 
with some celebrated name, on the chance of re- 
claiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talley- 
rand in the Nam Jaune the phrase, " Speech was 
given to man to disguise his thoughts." 

Fournier, F Esprit dans PHistoire. 

Where Nature's end of language is declined, 
And men talk only to conceal the mind. 

Young, Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 207. 

The germ of this saying is to be found in Jeremy 
Taylor ; South, Butler, Young, Lloyd, and Gold- 
smith have repeated it after him. 



Beginning of the end. 

Mr. Fournier asserts, on the written authority of 
Talleyrand's brother, that the only breviary used by 
the ex-bishop was L? Improvisateur Franqais, a com- 
pilation of anecdotes and bon-mots, in twenty-one 
duodecimo volumes. 

Whenever a good thing was wandering about in 
search of a parent, he adopted it ; amongst others, 
" C'est le commencement de la fin." 

To shew our simple skill, 
That is the true beginning of our end. 
Shakespeare, Midsummer Nighfs Dream. Actv.Sc. 1. 



Appendix, 595 

Defend me from My friends. 

The French Ana assign to Marechal Villars tak- 
ing leave of Louis XIV. this aphorism, ci Defend 
me from my friends ; I can defend myself from my 
enemies." 

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, 
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend ! 

Canning, The A T ew Morality. 



Orthodoxy is my doxy, Heterodoxy is another 
mmis doxy. 

" I have heard frequent use," said the late Lord 
Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws, " of the 
words ' orthodoxy ' and ' heterodoxy ' ; but I con- 
fess myself at a loss to know precisely what they 
mean." " Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop War- 
burton, in a whisper, — " orthodoxy is my doxy, — 
heterodoxy is another man's doxy." 

Priestley's Memoirs. Vol. i. p. 372. 

No one is a hero to his valet. 

This phrase is commonly attributed to Madame 
de Sevigne, but, on the authority of Madame Aisse, 
belongs to Madame Cornuel. 

Lettres, edit. J. RavenaL 1853. 

Few men are admired by their servants. 

Montaigne, Essais. Book'm. Ch. 11. 

When Hermodotus in his poems described An- 
tigonus as the son of Helios (the sun), " My valet- 
de-chambre," said he, " is not aware of this." 

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride. Ch xxiv. 



596 Appendix. 

Greatest happiness of the greatest number. 

Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) 1 
who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth, 
— that the greatest happiness of the greatest number 
is the foundation of morals and legislation. 

Bentham's Works. Vol. x. p. 142. 

Ridicule the test of truth? 

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such 
cowards in reasoning, and are so afrafd to stand 
the test of ridicule? 

Shaftesbury, Charactcristicks. A Letter concerning 
Enthusiasm. Sec. 2. 

Truth, 't is supposed, may bear all lights ; and one 
of those principal lights or natural mediums by 
which things are to be viewed, in order to a thor- 
ough recognition, is ridicule itself. 

Ibid. Essay 07t the Freedom of Wit and Hnmonr. Sec. 1. 

'T was the saying of an ancient sage, 3 that hu- 
mour was the only test of gravity ; and gravity, of 
humour. For a subject which would not bear rail- 
lery was suspicious ; and a jest which would not 
bear a serious examination was certainly false wit. 

Ibid. Sec. v. 

1 The expression is used by Beccaria in the introduc- 
tion to his Essay on Crimes and Punishments. 

2 We have, oftener than once, endeavoured to attach 
some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to 
Shaftesbury, which, however, we can find nowhere in his 
works, that ridicule is the test of truth. — Carlyle, Mis- 
cellanies. Voltaire. 

3 Gorgias Leontinus, apud Arist. Rhetor, lib. 3, cap. 18. 



Appendix. 597 

Even such is Time, that takes on trust 
Our youth, our joyes, our all we have, 
And pays us but with age and dust ; 
Who in the dark and silent grave, 
When we have wandered all our ways, 
Shuts up the story of our days ; 
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, 
My God shall raise me up, I trust. 
Verses written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night be- 
fore his death. According to Oldys, they were 
found in his Bible. 

Go, Soul, the body's guest, 

Upon a thankless arrant ; 
Fear not to touch the best, 

The truth shall be thy warrant ; 
Go, since I needs must die, 
And give the world the lie. The Lie. 
This poem is traced in manuscript to the year 1 593. 
It first appeared in print in Davison's Poetical Rhap- 
sody, second edition, 1608. It has been assigned to 
various authors, but on Raleigh's side there is good 
evidence, besides the internal testimony, which ap- 
pears to us irresistible. Two answers to it, written 
in Raleigh's lifetime, ascribe it to him ; and two 
manuscript copies of the period of Elizabeth bear 
the title of " Sir Walter Rawleigh his Lie." 

Chambers's Cyclopedia. Vol. i. p. 120. 

Carpet knights. 

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in 
fighting ; and some of our city captains and carpet 
knights will make this good, and prove it. 

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. i. Sec. 2, 
Mem. 2, Subs. 2. 



598 Appendix. 

From Percy's Reliques. 

My mind to me a kingdom is ; l 

Such perfect joy therein I find, 
As far exceeds all earthly bliss, 

That God and Nature hath assigned. 
Though much I want that most would have, 

Yet still my mind forbids to crave. 
My mind to me a kingdom is. From Byrd's Psalmes, 
Sonnets, drY., 1588. 

He that had neyther been kithe nor kin 
Might have seen a full fay re sight. 

Gny of Gisborne. 
Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone, 
Wi' the auld moon in hir arme. 

Sir Patrick Spens. 2 

* 

Weep no more, lady, weep no more, 

Thy sorrow is in vain ; 
For violets plucked the sweetest showers 

Will ne'er make grow again. 

The Friar of Orders Gray. 

Every white will have its black, 
And every sweet its sour. 

Sir Carline. 

1 Mens regnum bona possidet. 

Seneca, Thyestes, Act ii. Line 380. 

My mind to me an empire is 
While grace affordeth health. 

Robert Southwell (1560- 1595). Look Home. 

2 I saw the new moon, late yestreen, 
Wi' the auld moon in her arm. 

From The Mi7istrelsy of the Scottish Border. 



Appendix. 599 

Percy's Reliques continued.] 

We 11 shine in more substantial honours, 
And to be noble we '11 be good. 

Winifreda (1726). 

And when with envy Time, transported, 
Shall think to rob us of our joys, 

You '11 in your girls again be courted, 

And I '11 go wooing in my boys. Ibid. 

He that wold not when he might, 
He shall not when he wolda. 1 

The Baffled Knight. 

The Guard dies, but never surrenders. 

This phrase, attributed to Cambronne, who was 
made prisoner at Waterloo, was vehemently denied 
by him. It was invented by Rougemont, a prolific 
author of mots, two days after the battle, in the In- 
dependant. Fournier, V Esprit dans VHistoire. 

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to 
imitate, but an example to deter. 

Junius, Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton. 

The heart to conceive, the understanding to di- 
rect, or the hand to execute. 2 

Letter xxxvii. City Address and the Kinifs Anszver. 

Private credit is wealth, public honour is secu- 
rity ; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports 
its flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you fix 
him to the earth. 

Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands. 

1 He that will not when he may, 
When he will, he shall have nay. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel. p. iii. Sec. 2. Mem. 5, Subs. 5. 
2 Cf. Gibbon, p. 358. 



600 Appendix. 

From the New England Primer. 

In Adam's fall, 
We sinned all. 

My Book and Heart 
Must never part. 

Young Obadias, 
David, Josias, — 
All were pious. 

Peter deny'd 

His Lord, and cry'd. 

Young Timothy 
Learnt sin to fly. 

Xerxes did die, 
And so must I. 

Zaccheus he 

Did climb the tree 

Our Lord to see. 

Our days begin with trouble here, 

Our life is but a span, 
And cruel death is always near, 

So frail a thing is man. 

Now I lay me down to take my sleep, 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take. 

His wife, with nine small children and one at the 
breast, following him to the stake. 

Martyrdom of Mr. "John Rogers. Burnt at 
Smith field, Feb. 14, 1554. 



Appendix. 60 1 

The wisdom of many and the wit of one. 

A definition of a proverb 'which Lord John Russell 
gave one morning at breakfast, at Mardock's, — 
"One man's wit, and all men's wisdom." 

Memoirs of Mackintosh. Vol. ii. p. 473. 

Count that day lost whose low descending sun 
Views from thy hand no worthy action done. 

Stamford's Art of Readi7ig. Third Edition, p. 27. 
Boston, 1803. 

In the Preface to Mr. Nichol's work on Auto- 
graphs, among other albums noticed by him as be- 
ing in the British Museum is that of David Krieg 
with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following 

verses. 1 

" Virtus sua gloria." 

Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun 
Views from thy hand no noble action done. 

Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the 
celebrated botanist of that name. 

Order reigns in Warsaw. 

General Sebastiani announced the fall of Warsaw 
in the Chamber of Deputies, Sept. 16, 1831 : Des 
lettres que je recois de Pologne m'annoncent que 
la tranquillite regne a Varsovie. 

Dumas, Memoir es, 2nd Series. Vol. iv. Ch. 3. 

A foreign nation is a contempora?ieous posterity. 

Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his 
immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of con- 
temporaneous posterity. 

Stanley, or The Recollections of a Man of the 
World. Vol. ii. p. 89. 
1 Notes and Queries, 1st Series, Vol. vii. p. 159. 
2.6 



602 Appendix. 

Young me7i think old men fools, and old men know 
young men to be so. 

Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Met- 
calf. It is now in many people's mouths, and likely 
to pass into a proverb. 

Ray's Proverbs, p. 145, ed. Bohn. 



PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS, 

FROM ENGLISH WRITERS, WHICH ARE OF COMMON ORIGIN. 

All that glisters is not gold. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act ii. Sc. 7. 

All is not gold that glisteneth. 

Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, Act v. Sc. 1. 

All thing, which that shineth as the gold 
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. 

Chaucer, The Chanones Yemannes Tale, Line 243. 

All is not golde that outward shewith bright. 

Lydgate, On the Mutability of Human Affairs. 

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book ii. Canto 8, St. 14. 

All is not gold that glisters. 

Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. 

Dryden, Hind and Panther. 

Another, yet the same. 

Pope, Dunciad, Book iii. Tickell, From a Lady in 
England. Johnson, Life of Dryden. Darwin, 



Appendix. 603 

Botanic Garden, Pt. i. Canto 4, /. 380. Words- 
worth, The Excursion, Book ix. Scott, The 
Abbot, Ch. 1. 

Aliusque et idem. Horace, Car??i. Sec. I. 10. 

At sixes and sevens. 

Middleton, The Widow. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Better late than never. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. I. Murphy, 
The School for Guardians, Act 1. 

By hook or crook. 

Spenser, Faei'ie Queene, Book iii. Canto 1, St. 17. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, Women Pleased, Act i. 
_ Sc 3 . 
Castles in the air. 

Stirling, Sonnets, S. 6. Burton, Anatomy of Melan- 
choly, The Atithors Abstract. Sidney, Defence 
of Poesy. Sir Thomas Browne, Letter to a 
Friend. Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victory, Pt. 
ii. Swift, Duke Grafton's Anszver. Broome, 
Poverty a 7 id Poetry. Fielding, Epistle to Wal- 
'pole. Gibber, Non Juror, Act ii. Churchill, 
Epistle to Lloyd. Shenstone, On Taste, Pt. ii. 
Lloyd, Epistle to Colman. 

Compare great things with small. 

Virgil, Georgics, Book iv. /. 176. Milton, Par. Lost. 
Book ii. /. 921. Cowley, The Motto. Dryden, 
Ovid's Met., Book i. /. 727. Tickell, Poem on 
Hunting. Pope, Windsor Forest. 

Comparisons are odious. 

Burton, Anat, of Mel., Pt. iii. Sec. 3, Mem. 1. Subs. 
2. Heywood, A Woman killed with Kindness, 
Act i. Sc. 1. Donne, El. 8. Herbert, Jacula 
Prudentum. 



604 Appendix. 

Comparisons are odorous. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Comparisons are offensive. 

Don Quixote, Ft. ii. Ch. I. 

Dark as pitch. 

Ray's Proverbs. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress ', Pt. 1. 

Deeds, not words. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Lover's Progress, Act 
iii. Sc. 1. Butler, Hudibras, Pt. i. C. 1, /. 867. 

Devil take the hindmost. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Bonduca, Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Butler, Hudibras, Pt. i. Canto 2, /. 633. Prior, 
Ode on taking Nemur. Pope, Dunciad, Book 
ii. /. 60. Burns, To a Haggis. 

Diamonds cut diamonds. 

Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, Act. i. Sc. 1. 

Discretion the best part of valour. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, A King, and no King, Act 
iv. Sc. 3. 

The better part of valour is discretion. 

Shakespeare, Henry LV., Pt. i. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Churchill, The Ghost, Book i. /. 232. 

Eat thy cake and have it too. 

Herbert, The Size. BickerstafT, Thomas and Sally. 

Enough is good as a feast. 

Ray's Proverbs. BickerstafT, Love in a Village, 
Act iii. *SV. I. 

Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. 

Ray's Proverbs. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. 
Macklin, The Man of the World, Act i. Sc. 2. 



Appendix. 605 

Every why hath a wherefore. 

Shakespeare, Co?nedy of Errors, Act ii. Sc. 2. But- 
ler, Hudibras, Pt. i. Canto l, I. 132. 

Facts are stubborn things. 

Smollett, Trans. Gil Bias, Book x. C/i. I. Elliot, 
Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35, n. (1747). 

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. 

Britain's Ida, Canto v. 6?. 1. King, Orpheus and 
Eur y dice. Burns. To Dr. Blacklock. Colman, 
Love Laughs at Locksmiths, Act i. 

Fast and loose. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour V Lost, Act i. Sc. 1. 

Give an inch he '11 take an ell. 

John Webster, Sir Thomas Wyatt. Hobbes, 
Liberty and iVecessity, Aid. iii. 

Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt. 

Sorbiere (1610-1670), from The French Anas. 
Tom Brown, Laconics. Goldsmith, The 
Haunch of Venison. 

God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. 

Ray's Proverbs. Garrick, Epigram 071 Goldsmith's 

Retaliation. 

Golden mean. 

Horace, Book 2, Ode x. 5. My mind to me a 
Kingdom is. Massinger, The Great Duke of 
Florence, Act i. Sc. I. Pope, Moral Essays, 
Epistle iii. /. 246. 

Great wits will jump. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy. Byrom, The Nimmers. 

Good wits will jump. 

Cougham, Camden Soc. Pub. p. 20. Duke of 
Buckingham, The Chances, Act v. Sc. 1. 



606 Appendix. 

Gray mare will prove the better horse. 

The Marriage of True Wit and Science. Butler, 
HudibraS) Pt. ii. Canto 2, /. 698. Fielding, 
The Grub Street Opera, Act ii. Sc. 4. Prior, 
Epilogue to Lucius. 

[Mr. Macaulay thinks that this proverb originated in 
the preference generally given to the gray mares of 
Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England. — His- 
tory of England, Vol. i. Ch. 3.] 

Hail, fellow, well met. 

Tom Brown, Amusement, viii. Swift, My Lady's 
Lamentation* 
He knew what 's what. 

Skelton, Why come ye not to Couj'te? I. 1 106. But- 
ler, Hudibras, Pt. i. Canto 1, /. 149. 

He must go that the Devil drives. 

Peele, Edward I. Shakespeare, All \r Well that 
Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 3. 

He must have a long spoon, that must eat with 
the Devil. 

Chaucer, The Squiere's Tale, Pt. ii. /. 256. Mar- 
lowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act. 
iv. Sc. 3. A pins and Virginia. 

Honesty is the best policy. 

Don Quixote, Pt. ii. Ch. 33. Byrom, The Nimmers. 
Ill wind turns none to good. 

Tusser, Moral Refections on the Wind. 

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 

Shakespeare, Henry VI., Pt. iii. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Not the ill wind which blows no man good. 

Shakespeare, Henry IV., Pt. ii. Act v. Sc. 3. 

In spite of my [thy] teeth. 

Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One, Act i. 



Appendix. 607 

Sc. 2. Southerne, Sir Anthony Love, Act hi. 
Sc. 1. Fielding, Enrydice Hissed. Garrick, 
The Country Girl, Act iv. Sc. 3. 

It was no chylden's game. 

Pilkington, Tournament of Tottenham, 1 63 1. 

Let the world slide. 

Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Indue. 1. 
John Heywood, Be merry, Friends. 

Let us do or die. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Island Princess, Act 

ii. Sc. 4. Burns, Bannockbum. Campbell, 

Gertrude. 

[Scott says " this expression is a kind of common 

property, being the motto, we believe, of a Scottish 

family." — Review of Gertrude, Scott's Misc. Vol. i. p. 153.] 

Look a gift horse in the mouth. 

Rabelais, Book i. Ch. xi. Butler, Hudibras, Ft. 1. 
Canto 1, /. 490. Also quoted by St. Jerome. 

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, 
Ch. 57. 

Look before you ere you leap. 

Butler, Hudibras, Ft. ii. Canto 2, I. 502. 

Love me little, love me long. 

Marlowe, Jeiv of Malta, Activ. Herrick. 

Lucid interval. 

Bacon, Henry VII. Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of 
Palestine, Book iv. Ch. 2. South, Sermon, 
Vol. viii. p. 403. Dryden, MacFlecknoe. John- 
son, Life of Lyttellon. Burke, On the French 
Revolution. 

Nisi suadeat intervallis. 

Bracton,_/2?/. 1243, and fol. 420, b. Register Origi- 
nal, 267 a, 1270. 



608 Appendix. 

Main chance. 

Shakespeare, Henry VI., Pt. ii. Act i. Sc. I. Butler, 
Hudibras, Pt. ii. Canto 2. Dryden, Persius, 
Sat. vi. 

Midnight oil. 

Gay, Shepherd and Philosopher. Shenstone, Elegy 
xi. Cowper, Retirement. Lloyd, On Rhyme. 

Moon is made of green cheese. 

Jack Jugler,p. 4fi. Rabelais, Booki. Ch. xi. Butler, 
Hudibras, Pt. ii. Canto 3, /. 263. 

Mother-wit. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book iv. Canto x. .5?. 21. 
Marlowe, /V#/. Tamberlaine the Great, Pt. i. 
, Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. 
Sc. 1. 
More the merrier. 

Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and 
Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act i. Sc. 1. 
77^ *Sm Voyage, Act i. 6V. 2. 

Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring. 

Sir H. Sheers, Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom 
Brown, sEneus Sylvius^s Letter. Dryden, 
Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. 

Nine days' wonder. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Noble Gentleman, Act 
iii. Sc. 4. Quarles, Emblems, Book i. viii. 

No better than you should be. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb, Act iv. 
Sc. 3. Fielding, The Temple Beau, Sc. 3. 

No love lost between us. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Compter, Act iv. Garrick, 
Correspondence, 1759. Fielding, The Grub 
Street Opera, Act i. Sc. iv. 



Appendix. 609 

Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. 

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book ii. 
Ch. 12. Hooker's Polity, Book v. Ch. lxxxi. 

Of two evils I have chose the least. 

Prior, Imitation of Horace. 

E cluobus malis minimum eligendum. 

Erasmus, Adages. Cicero, De Offtciis. 

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese. 

Chaucer, Troihts and Creseide, Book ii. /. 470. 

Paradise of fools. Fools' paradise. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 4. Mil- 
ton, Par. lost, Book iii. /. 496. Pope, Dunciad, 
Book iii. Fielding, The Alodern Husband, 
Act i. Sc. 9. Crabbe, The Borough, letter xii. 
Quevedo, Visions, iv. L'Estrange's Trans. 
Murphy, All in the Wrong, Act i. 

Picked up his crumbs. 

Murphy, The Upholsterer, Act i. 

Plain as a pike-staff. 

Terence in English, 1641. Duke of Buckingham, 
Speech in the House of lords, 1675. Smollett, 
Ti'ans. Gil Bias, Book xii. Ch. 8. 

Rhyme nor reason. 

Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale (1530). Spen- 
ser, On his Promised Pension. Peele, Edward 
I. Shakespeare, As You like It, Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Sc. 5. Comedy 
of Errors, Act ii. Sc. 2. 
[Sir Thomas More advised an author who had sent 
him his manuscript to read, " to put it in rhyme." Which 
being done, Sir Thomas said, " Yea, marry, now it is 
somewhat, for now it is rhyme ; before it was neither 
rhyme nor reason."] 

26 * MM 



6xo Appendix. 

Remedy worse than the disease. 

Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles. Beaumont and 
Fletcher, Lovers Cure, Act iii. Sc. 2. Suck- 
ling's Letters, A Dissuasion fro??i Love. Dry- 
den's yuvenal, Sat. xvi. /. 32. 

Smell a rat. 

Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub, Activ. Sc. 3. Butler, 
Hudibras, Pt. i. Canto 1, /. 281. Farquhar 
Love a7id a Bottle. 

Spare the rod, and spoil the child. 

Ray's Proverbs. Butler, Hudibras, Pt. ii. Canto I, 
7.844. 
Speech is silver, silence is gold. 

A German Proverb. 

Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put 
abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear 
in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but 
as in packs. 

Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. From Bacon's Es- 
says, On Friendship. 

Spick and span new. 

Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, Act i. Sc. 1. Far- 
quhar, Preface to his Works. 

Set my ten commandments in your face. 

Shakespeare, Henry VI., Pt. ii. Act i. Sc. 3. Seli- 
mus, Emperor of the Turks, 1594. Westward 
Hoe, 1607. Erasmus, Apophthegms. 

Strike while the iron is hot. 

John Webster, Westward Hoe, Act ii. Sc. I. Far- 
quhar, The Beaux' Stratagem, Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Tell truth, and shame the devil. 

Shakespeare, Henry IV., Pt. i. Act iii. Sc. I. Swift, 
Mary the Cookmaid 's Letter. 



Appendix, 611 

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. 

Herbert, Jacula Pritdentum. Fuller, On Expect- 
ing Preferment. 

Though I say it that should not say it. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit at Several Weap07is, 
Act ii. Sc. 2. Fielding, The Miser, Act iii. 
Sc. 2. Cibber, The Rival Fools, Act ii. The 
Fall of British Tyranny, Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Through thick and thin. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book iii. Canto I, St. 17. 
Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Kemp, Nine Days'" Wonder. Butler, Hndibras, 
Ft. i. Canto ii. /. 369. Dryden, Absalom and 
Achitophel, Ft. ii. /. 414. Pope, Dunciad, Book 
ii. Cowper, John Gilpin. 

To make a virtue of necessity. 

Rabelais, Book i. Ch. xi. Chaucer, Knights Tale, I. 

3044. Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 

Act iv. Sc. 2. Dryden, Falamon and Arcite. 

[In the additions of Hadrianus Junius to the Adages 

of Erasmus, he remarks (under the head of Necessitatem 

edere), that a very familiar proverb was current among his 

countrymen, viz. Necessitatem in virtnteiTi commiitare.\ 

To see and to be seen. 

Chaucer, The Prologe of the Wyfe of Bathe, I. 552. 
Ben Jonson, Epithalamion, St. 3, /. 4. Dryden, 
Ovid's Art of Love, Book i. /. 109. Goldsmith, 
Citizen of the World, Letter 71. 

Turn over a new leaf. 

Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Two of a trade seldom agree. 

Ray's Proverbs. Gay, The Old Hen and the Cock. 
Murphy, The Apprentice, Act iii. 



6 1 2 Appendix. 

Two strings to his bow. 

Hooker's Polity, Book v. Ch. lxxx. Butler, Lludi- 
bras, Pt. iii. Canto I, l. I. Churchill, The 
Ghost, Book iv. Fielding, Love in Several 
Masques, Sc. xiii. 

Virtue is her own reward. 

Dryden, Tyrannic Love, Act iii. Sc. I. 

Virtue is its own reward. 

Prior, Im. of Horace, Book iii. Ode 2. Gray, Epis- 
tle to Methuen. Home, Douglas, Act iii. Sc. I. 

Virtue is to herself the best reward. 

Henry More, Cupid's Conflict. 

Ipsa quidem Virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces. 
Silius Italicus, Punica, Lib. xiii. /. 663. 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The devil always builds a chapel there. 
De Foe, The True-Bom Englishman, Pt. i. /. 1. 

God never had a church but there, men say, 
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. 
I doubted of this saw, till on a day 
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles. 
Drummond, Posthumous Poems. - 

No sooner is a temple built to God, but the 
Devil builds a chapel hard by. 

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a 
chapel. 

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. iii. Sc. iv. M. 1, 
Subs. 1. 

Wrong sow by the ear. 

Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. Sc. 
1. Butler, Hudibras, PL ii. Canto 3, /. 580. 
Colman, Heir -at- Law, Act'i. Sc. 1. 



Appendix, 613 

Word and a blow. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Dryden, Amphitryon, Act i. Sc. I. Bunyan, 
Pilgrim } s Progress, Pt. i. 

Parish me no parishes. 

Peele, The Old Wive's Tale. 

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. 

Shakespeare, Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds. 
Shakespeare, Romeo a7id Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Vow me no vows. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money, Act 
iv. Sc. 4. 

Plot me no plots. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burn- 
ing Pestle, Act ii. Sc. 5. 

O me no O's. 

Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act v. Sc. I. 

Cause me no causes. 
Massinger, A new Way to pay Old Debts, Acti. Sc. 3. 

Virgin me no virgins. ibid. Ad iii. Sc. 2. 

End me no ends. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Front me no fronts. 

Ford, The lady's Trial. Act ii. Sc. I. 

Midas me no Midas. 

Dryden, The Wild Gallant, Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Madam me no Madam. ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Petition me no petitions. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb, Act i. Sc. 2. 

Map me no maps. 

Fielding, Rape upoji Rape, Act i. Sc. 5. 



6 14 Appendix. 

But me no buts. 

Fielding, Rape upon Rape, Act ii. Sc. 2. Aaron 
Hill, Snake in the Grass, Sc. I. 

Play me no plays. Foote, The Knight, Act ii. 

Clerk me no clerks. Scott, Ivanhoe, Ch. 20. 

Diamond me no diamonds ! prize me no prizes. 
Tennyson, Idyls of the King, Elaine, 



INDEX 



Aaron's serpent, 272. 
Abashed the devil stood, 1S4. 

v. the seraph. 1 . : 
Abide with me. 503. 
Abodes, blessed. 270. 
Abou Ben Adherr.. 492 
Abound, sin and death, 438. 
Above all d-ree-: : \ 

all Re ■:-. 219. 

any Greek, 226. 

that which is written, 573. 

the reach, 405. 

the smoke an d 3 : 1 : 4 

the vulgar flight, 341. 
Abra was ready, 241. 
Abraham's bosom. 70. 

gment of all that is pleasant 
in ma: 
Abroad, schc 504 

Absence makes the heart grow 

fonder. 1Z2. 
Absent from him I roam, 438. 

in body, = -;, 
Absolute rule. i3i. 

sway, 

the knave is, 117. 
Abstracts and brief chronic', e s : : : 
Abundance of the hear:. 5 - 
Abuse, stumbling : - 
Abusing the k ish, 20 

178. 
hnian maid, 434. 
A : a :'. e m e g r : we of. 192. 
Academes that nourish all the 

work 
Accept a miracle, 268. 
Accepted time, 57 y 
Accident of an accident. 371. 
Accidents by flood and field, 124. 
Accommodated, excellent tc be, . : 
Accomplishment of verse. 1.22. 
According to the appearar. ce 571 

to knowledge, 572 
Account, beggarly, 80. 

sent to my, 107. 
Accoutred as I was, 82. 
Accuse not n a t : r e i : 8 
Achilles' torn: 

wrath. 2^S. 



Aching void. 363. 

Acorns, oaks from little, 393. 

Acquai":!:::^ aulc : : 

ay :r. better. 2: 
Acre of his neighbour's com, 402. 
-:;:-. over whose, walked, $4 
23 both, 219. 

to the swelling, 89. 

" --- . ' : 2 74- 

Acting of a dreadful thing 83 

:rt the stage. 348. 
Action and counteraction. 352, 

faithful in, 279. 

how 1 ke a ingel in, 109. 

in the tented field, 123. 

is transitory. 401. 

lose in. 

makes fine the. : - - 

no noble, done, 601. 

of the tiger, 63. 

pious, no. 

suit the, to the word, 112. 
Signified by, 78. 
»f my living, 74. 

of the just. 160. 

of the last age, 164. 

virtuous, 233. 
Actor, condemn not the, 23. 

Actors, these : mr, 1 1 

Acts ": :-.. - -_.es. 41. 

illustrious, 169. 

little 406. 

nobly does well, 262. 

our angels are. 147. 

the best who third: - si -- : . 

those graceful, 18S. 
: 
Ada silt daughter. 470. 
Adage, cat d the _ :. 
Adam iolve ar.d Eve span •-'.- 

the g: : dlies: man. zl2. 

the offending, 2. 
Adamant, cased in, 416. 
Adam's fall we sinned all, 600. 
: golden numbers, 165. 

to these retired leisure, 2:2. 

wings to thy speed, 177. 
Adder. stingeth like an, 555, 



6i6 



Index. 



Adding fuel to the flame, 194. 

insult to injury, 584. 
Addison, days and nights to, 320. 
Adds a precious seeing, 30. 
Adieu my native shore, 468. 

so sweetly she bade me, 327. 
Adjunct, learning is but an, 30. 
Adore the hand that gives the 

blow, 239. 
Admiration of virtue, 207. 

of weak minds, 191. 

season your, 102. 
Admire, where none, 324. 
Admired, all who saw, 384. 

disorder, 95. 
Admit impediments, 135. 
Admitted to that equal sky, 270. 
Adored through fear, 364. 
Adores and burns, 271. 
Adorn a tale, 317. 

nothing he did not, 319. 

the cottage might, 346. 
Adorned amply in her husband's 
eye, 400. 

whatever he spoke upon, 319. 
Adorning with so much art, 167. 
Adorns and cheers the way, 349. 
Adulteries of art, 144. 
Advantage, were nailed for our, 54. 
Adversary had written a book, 545. 

the devil, 578. 
Adversity, bruised with, 25. 

crossed with, 19. 

day of, 556, 55S. 

fortune's sharpe. 4. 

of our friends, 210. 

sweet are the uses of, 39. 
Adversity's sweet milk, 80. 
Afeard, soldier and, 97. 
Affairs of men, tide in the, 87. 
Affect, study what you most, 44. 
Affection hateth nicer hands, 10. 
Affections mild, 296. 

run to waste, 475. 
Affects to nod, 220. 
Affirm that we say, 572. 
Affliction tries our virtue, 337. 
Affliction's heaviest shower, 410. 

sons, 3S6. 
Affrighted nature, 355. 
Affront me, well-bred man will 

not, 367. 
Afraid, be not, it is I, 568. 
Afric maps, 245. 
Africa and golden joys, 62. 
Afric's burning shore, 313. 

sunny fountains, 461. 
After death the doctor, 156. 

life's fitful fever, 94. 

the high Roman fashion, 132. 



After-loss, drop in for an, 135. 
Afternoon, custom in the, 106. 

multitude call the, 31. 

of her best days, 70. 
After times, written to, 206. 
Afterwards he taught, 2. 
Against me, not with me, is, 570. 
Agate-stone, no bigger than an, 76. 
Age, ache, penury, 24. 

actions of the last, 164. 

beautiful is their old, 418. 

be comfort to my, 39. 

cannot wither her, 131. 

cradle of reposing, 287. 

dallies like the old, 47. 

expect one of my, 393. 

for talking, 344. 

grow dim with, 251. 

he was not of an, 145. 

in a good old, 540. 

in a green old, 229. 

in every, in every clime, 295. 

is as a lusty winter, 40. 

is grown so picked, 118. 

is in, the wit is out, 27. 

master spirits of this, 84. 

of cards, 278. 

of chivalry is gone, 353. 

of ease, 344. 

of gold, 204. 

of sophisters, 353. 

pomp of, 414. 

pyramids doting with, 209. 

serene and bright, 408. 

shakes Athena's tower, 470. 

smack of, 60. 

soul of the, 145. 

summer of her, 230. 

that melts in unperceived de- 
cay, 317. 

that which should accompany 
old, 97. 

thou art shamed, 83. 

to come my own, 166. 

too late, or cold, 1S9. 

torrent of a downward, 309. 

toys of, 273. 

'twixt boy and youth, 446. 

without a name, 450. 
Aged bosom, plant of slow growth 

in an, 322. 
Ages, his acts being seven, 41. 

alike all, 343. 

famous to all, 207. 

heir of all the, 519. 

once in the flight of, 437. 

the slumbering, 515. 

three poets in three, 225. 

through the, 519. 

to the next, 139. 



Index, 



617 



Ages, unborn, 331. 
Age's tooth, 49. 

Agonv, all we know of, are thine, 
528. 

distrest, 407. 

swimmer in his, 487. 
Agree as angels do, 169. 

on the stage, 383. 
Agreement with hell, 563. 
Aid of ornament, 309. 
Aimed at duck or plover, 381. 
Air a chartered libertine, 62. 

and harmony express, 242. 

around with beauty, 474. 

be shook to, 74. 

bird of the, 559. 

bites shrewdly, 104. 

burns frore, 176. 

couriers of the, 91. 

diviner, 408. 

do not saw the, 112. 

fairer than the evening, 15. 

fills the silent, 426. 

heaven's sweetest, 135. 

hurtles in the darkened, 332. 

into the murky, 190. 

is full of farewells, 533. 

love free as, 293. 

melted into thin, 18. 

mocking the, 51. 

nipping, 104. 

of delightful studies, 206. 

of glory, 211. 

recommends itself, 90. 

scent the morning, 106. 

summer's noontide, 175 

sweetness on the desert, 333. 

to rain in the, 11. 

to the troubled, 330. 

trifles light as, 128. 

with idle state, 330. 
Airs from heaven, 105. 
Airy hopes my children, 423. 

nothing, a local habitation, 34. 

purposes, 172. 

tongues, that syllable, 195. 
Aisle and fretted vault, 332. 

long-drawn, 332. 
Aisles of Christian Rome, 527. 
Ajax strives, 282. 
Akin to love, 238. 

to pain, 532. 
Alabaster, grandsire cut in, 35. 
Alacrity in sinking, 21. 
Alarums, stern, 68. 
Aldeborontiphoscophornio, 243. 
Alderman's forefinger, 76. 
Ale, God send thee, 9. 

mighty, 3- 

nut-brown, 201. 



Ale, size of pots of, 212. 
Alexandrine, needless, 282. 
Algebra, tell what hour by, 212. 
Alike all ages, 343. 

fantastic, 2S1. 
All above is grace, 226. 

around thee smiled, 380. 

below is strength, 226. 

chance direction, 271. 

cry, and no wool, 214. 

discord, harmony, 271. 

Europe rings, 20S. 

flesh is,grass, 563. 

in all, take him for, 102. 

in the Downs, 302. 

is lost save honour, 590. 

is not gold that glitters, 602. 

is not lost, 170. 

men are created equal, 376. 

men are liars, 550. 

men have their price, 253. 

men's wisdom, 601. 

my pretty chickens, 97. 

my sins remembered, 111. 

of death to die, 437. 

of one mind, 577. 

on a rock reclined, 301. 

on earth and all in heaven, 255. 

other things give place, 303. 

passions, all delights, 432. 

places shall be hell, 15. 

silent, and all damned, 409. 

sorts of prosperity, 247. 

that a man hath, 543. 

that men held wise, 167. 

the way to heaven, 163. 

things are pure, 576. 

things that are, 147. 

things to all men, 574. 

things work together, 572. 

thoughts, all passions, 432. 

thy ends, thy country's, 73. 

was light, 290. 

was lost, 189. 

we know or dream, 528. 
I Allegory, headstrong as an, 382. 

Alliances, entangling, 377. 
I Allies, thou hast great, 412. 
Alliteration's artful aid, 357. 
Allured to brighter worlds, 345. 
Almanacs of the last year, 164. 
Almighty dollar, 465. 
Almighty's orders to perform, 252. 
Alms, old age's, 140. 

when thou doest, 566. 
Aloft, cherub thai sits up, 379. 
Alone, all. all alone, 430. 

I did it, 75. 

least in solitude, 472. 

man should not be, 540. 



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Index. 



Alone, never less, 399. 

on a wide wide sea, 430. 

that worn-out word, 505. 

with his glory, 499. 

with noble thoughts, 14. 
Alp, many a fiery, 177. 
Alph the sacred river, 434. 
Alpha and Omega, 578. 
Alps on Alps arise, 280. 

perched on, 265. 
Alraschid, Haroun, 517. 
Altars, strike for your, 528. 
Altar-stairs, world's, 523. 
Alteration finds, 135. 
Alway, I would not live, 544. 
Am I not a man and brother? 591. 
Amaranthine flower, 410. 
Amaryllis in the shade, 199. 
Amazed the rustics gazed, 346. 
Amazing brightness, 236. 
Ambassador is an honest man 

sent to lie abroad, 141. 
Amber mellow rich, 485. 

snuff-box, 285. 

straws in, 286. 

whose foam is, 164. 
Amber-dropping hair, 198. 
Ambition finds such joy, 181. 

fling away, 72. 

heart's supreme, 324. 

loves to slide, 222. 

low, 269. 

lowly laid, 444. 

made of sterner stuff, 85. 

of a private man, 361. 

the soldier's virtue, 131. 

to reign is worth, 171. 

vaulting, 91. 
Ambition's ladder, 83. 
Ambrosial curls, 298. 
Amen stuck in my throat, 92. 
Amend your ways, 564. 
American, die an, 464. 

if I were an, 323. 
Amicably if they can, 397. 
Amice gray, 192. 
Amid severest woe, 328. 

the melancholy main, 310. 
Ammiral, mast of some great, 171. 
Among the untrodden ways, 402. 

them, not of them, 473. 
Amorous causes, springs from, 284. 

delay, 182. 

descant sung, 182. 

fond and billing, 218. 
Amphitryon, true, 230. 
Ample room and verge, 331. 
Ampler ether, 408. 
Amuck, to run, 288. 
Anarch, great, 293. 



Anarchy, digest of, 352. 

eternal, 178. 
Anatomy, a mere, 25. 
Ancestors of nature, 178. 

that come after him, 20. 
Anchorite, saintship of an, 468. 
Anchors, great, 69. 
Ancient and fish-like smell, 18. 

grudge I bear him, 35. 

landmark, 555. 

tales say true, 467. 
Ancients of the earth, 520. 
Angel, consideration like an, 62. 

dropped from the clouds, 58. 

ended, 187. 

guardian, presiding, 399. 

hovering, 195. 

how like an, 109. 

ministering, 447. 

motion like an, 38. 

recording, 326. 

she drew down an, 221. 

whiteness, 27. 

with a smile, 188. 
Angelical, fiend, 79. 
Angels, agree as, 169. 

and ministers oi grace, 104. 

are bright still, 97. 

are painted fair, 236. 

could no more, 262. 

enjoy such liberty, 161. 

fear to tread, 283. 

fell by that sin, 72. 

holy, guard thy bed, 255. 

in brighter dreams, 211. 

laugh too, 537. 

listen when she speaks, 234. 

lower than the, 546. 

make the, weep, 23. 

men would be, 270. 

ne'er like, till our passion dies, 
165. 

our acts are, 147. 

plead like, trumpet-tongued, 
90. 

sad as, 440. 

sung the strain, 312. 

still an, appear, 259. 

tears such as, weep, 172. 

thousand liveried, 197. 

tremble, 330. 

unawares, 577. 

wake thee, 319. 

would be gods, 270. 
Angel's face shyned bright, 10. 
Angel-visits, like, 238, 307, 440. 
Anger, more in sorrow than, 102. 

of his lip, 47. 

shape of, can dismay, 419. 
Angle, brother of the, 153. 



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Anglers or very honest men, 154. 
Angling an innocent recreation, 

*53- 

somewhat like poetry, 153. 
Angling-rod he took for, 592. 
Angry, be ye, and sin not, 575. 

heaven is not always, 239. 
Anguish, lessened by another's, 
76. 

hopeless, 318. 

tell your, 458. 

wring the brow, 447. 
Animated bust, 333. 
Anise and cummin, 569. 
Anna, here thou great, 284. 
Annals of the poor, 332. 

writ your, 75. 
Annihilate space and time, 290. 
Annihilating ail that 's made, 219. 
Anointed, rail on the Lord's, 70. 

sovereign of sighs, 30. 
Another and a better world, 396. 

and the same, 425, 603. 

man's doxy, 595. 

morn risen on mid-noon, 425. 
Another's sword laid him low, 440. 

woe, feel, 295. 
Answer a fool according to his 
folly, 556. 

echoes, answer, 520. 

him ye owls, 292. 

soft, turneth away wrath, 553. 

ye evening tapers, 536. 
Answers till a husband cools, 278. 
Antagonist is our helper, 354. 
Anthem, pealing, 332. 
Anthems, singing of, 60. 
Anthropophagi, 124. 
Antic, old father, 54, 
Antidote, bane and, 251. 

sweet oblivious, 98. 
Antique towers, 32S. 

world, service of the 40. 
Antiquity, little skill in, 280. 
Antres vast and deserts idle, 124. 
Anything but history, 253. 

owe no man, 573. 

what is worth in, 216. 
Ape, like an angry, 23. 
Apes humility, 432. 
Apollo from his shrine, 204. 
Apollo's laurel bough, 16. 

lute, musical as, 31. 
Apollos watered, 573. 
Apostles fled, she when, 495. 

shrank, 495. 

twelve he taught, 2. 
Apostolic blows and knocks, 213. 
Apothecary, I do remember an, 
80. 



Apparel, every true man's, 25. 

fashion wears out, 27. 

oft proclaims the man, 104, 
Apparitions, blushing, 27. 

seen and gone, 238. 
Appear the immortals, 433. 
Appearance, judge not by, 571. 
Appetite, breakfast with, 72. 

cloy the hungry edge of, 52. 

comes with eating, 6. 

digestion wait on, 95. 

grown by what it fed on. 102. 

may sicken and so die, 46. 
Applaud thee to the very echo, 98. 
Apple of his eye, 541, 546 

rotten at the heart, 36. 
Apples, choice in rotten, 44. 

of gold, 556. 

swim, how we, 306. 
Appliance, desperate, 116. 
Appliances and means, 61. 
Application, bearings of this ob- 
servation lays in the, 538, 
Apply our hearts unto wisdom, 

55o. . 
Apprehension, death most in, 24. 

how like a god, 109. 

of the good, 52. 
Approach of even or morn, 179. 
Approbation from Sir Hubert, 394. 
Approved good masters, 123. 
Approving Heaven, 308. 
April day, uncertain glory of, 19. 

June and November, 587. 

of her prime, 134. 

proud-pied, 135. 

when men woo, 43. 

with his shoures, 1. 
Aprons, with greasy, 132. 
Apt alliteration, 357. 

and gracious words, 30. 
Arabia breathes from yonder box, 

284. 
Arabie the blest, 181. 
Arabs, fold their tents like, 532. 
Araby's daughter, 452. 
Arbitress, moon sits, 173. 
Arborett with painted blossoms, 

10. 
Arcades ambo, 4S9. 
Arch, triumphal, 442. 
Archangel ruined, 172, 
Archer, insatiate, 261, 

little meant, 450. 
Architect of his own fortunes, 582, 
Arctic sky, Ophiucus in the, 177. 
Are you good men, 27. 
Argue not against heaven, 206. 

though vanquished, 346. 
Argues yourselves unknown, 184. 



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Arguing, owned his skill in, 346. 
Argument for a week, 55. 

for lack of, 63. 

height of this great, 170. 

knock-down, 230. 

staple of his, 31. 
Arguments use wagers, for, 216. 
Ariosto of the North, 473. 
Aristocracy, shade of, 465. 
Aristotle and his philosophie, 2. 
Ark, hand upon the, 361. 

rolls of Noah's, 222. 
Arm-chair, old, 537. 
Arm the obdured breast, 176. 
Armed at all points, 102. 

doubly, 251. 

so strong in honesty, 87. 

with his primer, 504. 

with resolution, 248. 
Armies, embattled, clad in iron, 

193. 

swore terribly, 326. 

whole have sunk, 176. 
Arminian clergy, 323. 
Armour against fate, 160. 

is his honest thought, 141. 
Armourers, accomplishing the 

knights, 64. 
Arms against a sea of troubles, no. 

and the man I sing,- 227. 

imparadised in another's, 182. 

lord of folded, 30. 

man at, 140. 

my soul 's in, 249. 

nurse of, 343. 

on armour clashing, 186. 

our bruised, 68. 

seeming, 224. 

take your last embrace, 81. 
Army, hum of either, 63. 

of martyrs, 578. 

with banners, 561. 
Aromatic pain, 270. 
Arrayed for mutual slaughter, 414. 
Arrest, strict in his, 119. 
Arrow for the heart, 491. 

over the house, 119. 
Arrows, Cupid kills with, 27. 

of light, swift-winged, 369. 
Arrowy Rhone, 472. 
Arsenal, shook the, 192. 
Art, adorning with so much, 167. 

adulteries of, 144. 

a galling load, 388. 

all the gloss of, 346. 

elder clays of, 533. 

every walk of, 396. 

her guilt to cover, 349. 

is long and time is fleeting, 
53o- 



Art is too precise, 159. 

made tongue-tied, 135. 

may err, 225. 

nature is but, 271. 

nature lost in, 340. 

of God, 266. 

preservative of all arts, 585. 

reach of, 280. 

so vast is, 280. 

to blot, 289. 

with curious, 357. 

with so much, 67. 
Artaxerxes' throne, 192. 
Artery, each petty, 105. 
Article, snuffed cut by an, 490. 
Artificer, unwashed, 51. 
Artless jealousy, 117. 
Arts in which the wise excel, 235. 

mother of, 192. 

of peace, inglorious, 219. 

which I loved, 166. 

with lenient, 287. 
As good as a play, 592. 

he thinketh in his heart, 555. 

it fell upon a day, 134, 143. 
Ashbourn, down thy hill, 398. 
Ashen cold is fire yreken, 3. 
Ashes, beauty for, 564. 

from his, violet he made, 522. 

of his fathers, 511. 

ofWickliffe, 415. 

to ashes, 580. 

Troy laid in, 236. 

wonted fires live in our, 334. 
Ask and it shall be given, 567. 

death-beds, 262. 

me no questions, 350. 

not proud philosophy, 442. 

the brave soldier, 454. 
Askelon, in the streets of, 542. 
Asking eye, 2S7. 
Asks if this be joy, 346. 
Asleep the houses seem, 410. 
Aspect grave, 175. 

sweet of princes, 72. 
Aspen, light quivering, 447. 
Aspics' tongues, 129. 
Ass, egregiously an, 126. 

knoweth his master's crib, 561. 

to write me down an, 28. 
Assailant on the perched roosts, 

Assassination trammel up, 90. 
Assay, make, 115. 

so hard, 4. 
Assayed, thrice he, 172. 
Assembled souls, 167. 
Assemblies, masters of, 560. 
Assent with civil leer, 286. 
Assert eternal Providence, 170 



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Assume a pleasing shape, no. 

a virtue, 116. 
Assumes the god, 220. 
Assurance double sure, 96. 

given by lookes, 12. 

of a man, 115. 
Assyrian came down, 481. 
Astray, light that led, 388. 
Astronomer, undevout, 266. 
Asunder, let not man put, 568. 
Atheism, philosophy inclineth to, 
136 

the owlet, 432. 
Atheist half believes by night, 

264 
Atheist's laugh, 387. 
Athena's tower, 470. 
Athens the eye of Greece, 192! 
Athwart the noon, 432. 
Atlantean shoulders, 175. 
Atomies, team of little, 76. 
Atoms or systems, 269. 
Atrocious crime of being a young 

man, 322. 
Attain an English style. 320. 
Attempt, and not the deed, 92. 

by fearing to, 22. 

the end, 160. 
Attendance, to dance, 74. 
Attention still as night, 175. 
Attentive to his own applause, 287. 
Attic bird trills, 192. 
Atticus were he, 287 
Attire, wild in their, 88. 
Attractive kinde of grace, 12. 

metal more. 113. 
Attribute to awe and majesty, 37. 
Auburn, loveliest village, 344. 
Audience, drew, 175. 

fit, though few, 186. 
Aught divine or holy, 173. 

in malice, 130. 

that ever I could read, 32. 
Auld acquaintance, 388. 

moon in her arms, 598. 

nature swears, 389. 
Aurora shows her bright'ning face, 

3«- 

Author, choose an, as you choose 
a friend, 232. 
for where is any, teaches such 
beauty. 30. 
Authority, a little brief, 23. 
from others' books, 29. 
tongue-tied by, 135. 
Authors, most, steal their works, 

23 3 . 
Automaton, mechanized, 493. 
Autumn, nodding o'er the plain, 
309- 



Avarice, good old-gentlemanly 

vice, 487. 
Avon, sweet swan of, 145. 

to the Severn runs, 415. 
Awake arise or be forever fallen, 
171. 

my St. John, 269. 
Awakes from the tomb, 359. 
Awe-inspiring God, 423. 
Awe of such a thing as I, 82. 

the soul of Richard, 249. 
Awful guide in smoke, 450. 

volume, within that, 451. 
Axe is laid unto the root, 570. 

many strokes with little, 67. 

to grind, 465. 
Ayont the twal. 3S9. 
Azure brow, wrinkle on thine, 476. 

main, from out the, 312. 

realm, 331. 

robe of night, 496. 

Babbled of green fields, 63. 
Babe, bent o'er her, 373. 

she lost in infancy, 426. 
Babel, stir of the great, 363. 
Babes and sucklings, 546. 
Baby figure, 174. 
Babylon is fallen, 562. 

learned and wise, 414. 
Bacchus ever fair, 220. 

with pink eyne, 131. 
Bachelor, I would die a, 26. 
Back and side go bare, 9. 

harness on our, 99. 

on itself recoils, 189. 

resounded death, 178. 

thumps upon the, 370. 

to the field. 441. 

to thy punishment, 177. 
Backing of your friends, 56. 

plague upon such, 56. 
Backward mutters, 198. 
Bacon shined, 275. 
Bad affright, 329. 

begins, 116. 

eminence, 174. 
Bade me adieu, 327. 

the world farewell, 439. 
Badge, nobility's true, 75. 

of all our tribe, 36. 
Baffled oft is ever won, 477. 
Bailey, unfortunate Miss, 392. 
Baited with a dragon's tail, 592. 
Balance, dust of the, 563. 

of the old world, 398 
Balances, weighed in the, 564. 
Baldric of the skies, 496. 
Bales unopened to the sun, 263. 
Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, 434. 



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Index. 



Ballad to his mistress, 41. 

world was guilty of a, 29. 
Ballad-mongers, same metre, 57. 
Ballads from a cart, 228. 

of a nation, 236. 

to make all the, 236. 
Balloon, something in a huge, 409. 
Ballot-box, 492 
Balm from an anointed King, 53. 

in Gilead, 564. 

of hurt minds, 93. 
Bands of Orion, 545. 
Bane and antidote, 251. 

of all genius, 493. 

of all that dread the Devil, 403. 

precious, 173. 
Bang, many a, 214. 
Banish plump Jack, 56. 

strong potations, 381. 
Bank and bush, o'er, 11. 

and shoal of time, 90. 

I know a, 33. 

moonlight sleeps upon this, 38. 

of violets, 46. 
Banner in the sky, 535. 

star-spangled, 491. 
Banners, army with, 561. 

hang out our, 98. 
Banquet-hall deserted, 457. 
Banquet song and dance, 528. 
Banquet's o'er, when the, 301. 
Baptism o'er the flowers, 159. 
Baptized in tears, 373. 
Bar my constant feet, 311. 
Barbarians all at play, 475. 
Barbaric pearl and gold, 174. 
Barbarous dissonance, 197. 
Barber and a collier fight, 314. 
Bard here dwelt, 311. 
Bare, back and side go, 9. 
Bargain, hath sold him a, 30. 

in the way of a, 57. 
Barge, drag the slow, 371. 
Bark and bite, 254. 

attendant sail, 276. 

drives on and on, 472. 

is on the sea, 483. 

is worse than his bite, 156. 

perfidious, 200. 

watch dog's honest, 486. 
Barkis is willin', 538. 
Barleycorn, John, 385. 
Barren sceptre, 94. 
Base envy withers, 308. 

from its firm, 449. 

in kind, 366. 

is the slave that pays, 62. 

uses we may return, 118. 

who is here so, 85. 
Baseless fabric of this vision, 18. 



Bastard Latin, 484. 
to the time, 49. 
Bastards, nature's, 198. 
Bastion fringed with fire, 522. 
Bate a jot, 206. 
Bated breath, 36. 
Bathe in fiery flood, 24. 
Bats and to the moles, 562. 
Battalions, heaviest, 589. 

sorrows come in, 117. 
Battle and the breeze, 441. 

division of a, 123. 

feats of broil and, 123. 

for the free, 528. 

freedom's, once begun, 477. 

front of, lour, 388. 

how are the mighty fallen in, 
542. 

in the lost, 446. 

in the midst of the, 542. 

not to the strong, 559. 

perilous edge of, 171. 

's lost and won, 88. 

smellest afar off, 543. 
Battled for the true, 523. 
Battlements bore stars, 423. 
Battles fought o'er again, 220. 

sieges, fortunes, 124. 
Battle's magnificemly stern array, 

471. 
Bauble, pleased with this, 273. 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome, 486. 

the moon, 87. 
Be-all and the end-all, 90. 
Be blind to her faults, 241. 

bold everywhere, 11. 

England what she will, 357. 

just and fear not, 73. 

not afraid, it is I, 568. 

not deceived, 574. 

not overcome of evil, 573. 

not the first to try the new, 
281. 

not worldly-wise, 154. 

of good cheer, 568. 

or not to be, no. 

plain in dress, 303. 

quiet and go angling, 154. 

she fairer than the day, 151. 

sober be vigilant, 578. 

that blind bard, 436. 

there a will, 384. 

thou a spirit of health, 105. 

thou familiar not vulgar, 103. 

thy intents wicked, 105. 

to her virtues very kind, 241. 

wise to-day, 261. 

wise with speed, 267. 

wisely worldly, 154. 

ye all of one mind, 577, 



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623 



Be ye angry and sin not, 575. 
Beach, there came to the, 441. 
Beadle to a humorous sigh, 30. 
Beadroll, Fame's eternall, 11. 
Beads and prayer-books, 273. 

pictures, rosaries, 218. 
Beak from out my heart, 525. 
Beam, full midday, 208. 
Beams, candle throws his, 38. 

orient, 183. 

tricks his, 200. 
Bear a charmed life, 99. 

another's misfortunes, 297. 

is to conquer, 442. 

it calmlv, 235. 

like the' Turk, 286. 

pain to the, 511. 

rugged Russian, 95. 

the palm alone, 82. 

those ills we have, in. 

to live, 274. 

up and steer right onward, 206. 
Bear-baiting, heathenish, 511. 
Beard and hoary hair, 330. 

of formal cut, 41. 

the lion in his den, 447. 
Bearded like the pard, 41. 

men, tears of, 447. 
Beards be grown, 542. 

wag all, 7. 
Bearings of this observation, 538. 
Bears and lions growl, 254. 

his blushing honours, 72. 
Beast, fami.iar, to man, 20. 

righteous man regardeth, 553. 

that wants discourse of rea- 
son, 102. 
Beasts, brutish, 85. 

that perish, 548. 
Beat this ample field, 269. 

with flit, 212. 

your pate, 297. 
Beaten, he that is, 215. 

some have been, 216. 
Beatific vision, 173. 
Beating of my own heart, 500. 
Beatings of my heart, 406. 
Beaumont lie a little further, 145. 
Beauteous eye of heaven, 51. 

imaged there, 408. 

ruin lies, 391. 
Beauties of exulting Greece, 309. 

of the nighr, 141. 

of the north, 250. 

you meaner, 141. 
Beautiful and pure, 501. 

and to be wooed, 65. 

as sweet, 263. 

beyond compare, 438. 

exceedingly, 431. 



Beautiful for situation, 547. 

is night, 426. 

one was, 482. 

thought, 474. 

tyrant, 79. 

young as, 263. 
Beautifully blue, 489. 

less, 242. 
Beauty and her Chivalry, 470. 

as could die, 144. 

a thing of, 498. 

calls and glory shows, 237. 

dedicate his to the sun, 76. 

draws us with a single hair, 
284. 

dwells in deep retreats, 402. 

fatal gift of, 473. 

fills the air around with, 474. 

for ashes, 564. 

grows familiar, 250. 

hangs upon the cheek of 
night, 77. 

if she unmask her, 103. 

immortal, 359. 

in a brow of Egypt, 34. 

in his life, 130. 

in naked, 309. 

is its own excuse, 527. 

is truth, 499. 

lines where, lingers, 477. 

making beautiful, 135. 

music in the, 161. 

of a thousand stars, 15. 

of the good old cause, 413. 

ornament of, 135. 

she walks in, 481. 

smile from partial, 439. 

smiling in her tears, 440. 

stands in the admiration, 191. 

such as a woman's eye, 30. 

thou art all, 244. 

truly blent, 46. 

waking or asleep, 184. 

with my nails, 65, 
Beauty's chain, 458. 

ensign, 81. 

heavenly ray, 479. 
Beaux, where none are, 324. 
Became him like the leaving it, 

nothing, 89. 
Beckoning ghost, 296. 

shadows, 195. 
Beckons me away, 300. 
Bed at Ware, 258. 

by night, 346. 

go sober to, 147. 

of death, smooth the, 287. 

of down, 125. 

of honour, 215, 258. 

up in my, 508. 



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Bed, with the lark to, 392. 
Beddes hed, at his, 2. 
Bedecked ornate and gay, 193. 
Bedfellows, strange, 18. 
Beds of raging fire, 177. 

of roses, make thee, 15. 
Bedtime, would it were, 59. 
Bee had stung it newly, 157. 

the little busy, 254. 

where sucks the, 18. 
Beehive's hum, 399. 
Beer, bemus'd in, 285. 

chronicle small, 126. 

felony to drink, 66. 
Bees, hive for, 140. 

innumerable, 521. 
Beetle, that we tread upon, 24. 

three-man, 60. 
Before and after, 116. 

that which was, 215. 
Beggar, dumb, may challenge 
double pit)', 13. 

maid, loved the, 77. 

that I am, 109. 
Beggared all description, 131. 
Beggarly account, 80. 

last doit, 364. 
Beggars die, when, S4. 
Beggary in love, 131. 
Begging the question, 583. 
Begin in gladness, 405. 
Beginning and the end, 578. 

late, 1 S3. 

mean and end, 516. 

of our end, 34. 

of the end, 594. 
Begone dull care, 5SS. 
Begot of nothing, 77. 
Beguile her of her tears, 124. 

the thing I am, 126. 
Behind, worse remains, 116. 
Behold how good it is, 551. 

how great a matter, 577. 

now is the accepted time, 572. 

our home, 480. 

the child, 273. 

the upright, 547. 
Beholding heaven, 452. 
Being, God a necessary, 232. 
Being's end and aim, 274. 
Belated peasant, 173. 
Belerium, old, 294. 
Belgium's capital, 470. 
Belial, sons of, 172. 
Belief, prospect of, 88. 
Bell, as a sullen, 60. 

church-going, 369. 

each matin, 431. 

silence that dreadful, 126. 

strikes one, 261. 



Belle, 'tis vain to be a, 324. 

Bellman, fatal, 92. 

Bells jangled out of tune, 112. 

ring out wild, 524. 

those evening, 456. 

those village, 364. 
Belly, God send thee good ale, 9. 

whose God is their, 575. 

with good capon lin'd, 41. 
Belongings, thy, 22. 
Beloved face on earth, 482. 

from pole to pole, 430. 
Bemus'd in beer, 285. 
Ben Adhem's name led, 492. 
Bench of heedless bishops, 327. 
Bend a knotted oak, 256. 
Bendemeer's stream, 452. 
Bends the gallant mast, 459. 
Beneath the churchyard stone, 509. 

the good how far, 330. 

the milk-white thorn, 390. 

the rule of men, 505. 
Benedick the married man, 26. 
Benediction, perpetual, 421. 
Benighted, feels awhile, 456. 

walks, 196. 
Bent him o'er the dead, 477. 

o'er her babe, 373. 

top of my, 114 
Bequeathed by bleeding sire, 477. 
Bereaves of their bad influence, 

419. 
Berkeley, coxcombs vanquish, 337. 

every virtue under heaven to, 
288. 

said there was no matter, 490. 
Bermoothes, still-vex'd, 17. 
Berries harsh and crude, 199. 

two lovely, 33. 
Berth was of the wombe of morn- 
ing dew, 11. 
Beside a human door, 401. 

the springs of Dove, 402. 

the still waters, 547. 
Besier seemed than he was, 2. 
Besotted base ingratitude, 198. 
Besprent with April dew, 296. 
Best administered is best, 273. 

are but shadows, 34. 

can paint them, 294. 

companions, 344. 

days, 70. 

good man, 234. 

laid schemes, 386. 

men moulded out of faults, 25. 

of prophets, 491. 

of what we do, 411. 

portion of a good man's life, 
406. 

riches, 344. 



Index. 



625 



Best state, man at his, 548. 

who does the, 262^ 
Bestial, what remains is, 126. 
Bestride the narrow world, 82. 
Beteem the winds of heaven, 101. 
Betray, nature never did. 407. 
Betrayed for gold, 446. 
Better be d — d, 373. 

be with the dead, 94. 

bettered expectation, 26. 

days, have seen, 81. 

fifty years of Europe, 520. 

for worse, 579. 

grace, does it with a, 46. 

had they ne'er been born, 451. 

horse, gray mare the, 606 

is a dinner of herbs, 553. 

late than never, 7, 603. 

part of valour, 59. 

reck the rede, 3S7. 

spared a better man, 59. 

than his dog, 518. 

than one of the wicked, 54. 

than secret love, 553. 

than you should be, 604. 

thou shouldest not vow, 558. 

to be lowly born, 71. 

to have loved and lost, 522. 

to hunt in fields, 224. 

to reign in hell, 171. 

to sink beneath the shock, 478. 
Better-half, 14. 
Bettering of my mind, 17. 
Between two dogs, two hawks, 65. 

two opinions, 543. 
Betwixt a smile and tear, 474. 

Damiata, and Mount Casius, 
176. 

wind and nobility, 55. 
Bevy of fair women, 191. 
Beware of desperate steps, 370. 

of entrance to a quarrel, 104. 

the Ides of March, 82. 
Bezonian, under which king, 62. 
Bible, but litel on the, 2. 
Bibles laid open, 155. 
Bid me discourse, 134. 
Bids expectation rise, 349. 
Bienfait s'escrit en l'onde, 73. 
Big with the fate of Rome, 250. 

with vengeance, 314. 
Bigger, in shape no, 76. 
Bigness which you see, 231. 
Billows never break, 244. 

swelling and limitless, 433. 

trusted to thy, 476. 
Bind him to his native mountains, 

343- 
Binding nature fast m fate, 295. 
Bird in the solitude, 481. 

27 



Bird of dawning, 100. 

of the air, 559. 

shall I call thee, 404. 

that shunn'st the noise of 
folly, 203. 
Birds, charm of earliest, 183. 

in last year's nest, 531. 

joyous the, 18S. 

melodious sing madrigals, 15. 

of the air, 567. 
Birnam Wood, 99. 
Birth, death borders upon our, 146. 

dew of thy, 11. 

is but a sleep, 421. 

nothing but our death, 265. 

revolts from true, 78. 
Biscuit, remainder, 40. 
Bishop, church without a, 508. 
Bishops, heedless, 327. 
Bit me, though he had, 122. 
Bite, recovered of the, 349. 

the hand that fed them. 355. 

worse than his bark, 156. 
Bites him to the bone, 314. 
Biteth like a serpent, 552. 
Bitter as coloquintida, 125. 

change, 176. 

erelong, 1S9. 

is a scornful jest, 318. 

memory, 180. 

o'er the flowers, 468. 
Bittern booming, 510. 
Bitterness, his own. 553. 

of things, 420. 
Blabbing eastern scout, 195. 
Black and midnight hags, 96. 

despair, 493. 

eyes and lemonade, 459. 

hung be the heavens with, 65. 

is not so black. 398. 

it stood as night, 177. 

spirits and white, 96. 

to red began to turn, 216. 

white will have its, 59S. 

with tarnished gold, 395. 
Blackberries, plenty as, 56. 
Blackbird to whistle, 212. 
Blackguards both, 489. 
Bladder, blows up a man like a. 

5 6 - 
Blade, heart-stain on its, 459. 

trenchant, 213. 

vengeful, 397. 
Blades, shining, 458. 

two, of grass to grow, 246. 
Blame, she is to, that has been 

tried, 303. 
Blameless vestal's lot. 293. 
Blandishments of life, 300. 

will not fascinate us, 378. 

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626 



Index. 



Blank misgivings, 422. 

universal, 180. 
Blasphemes his feeder, 198. 
Blasphemy in the soldier, 23. 
Blast, he died of no., 229. 

of that dread horn, 447. 

of war, 63. 

striding the, 91. 
Blasted with excess of light, 330. 
Blastments, contagious, 103. 
Blasts from hell, 105. 
Blaze of noon, 193. 
Blazon, eternal, 106. 
Blazoning pens, 125. 
Bleak world alone, 455. 
Bleed, hearts for which others, 256. 
Bleeding country save, 439. 

piece of earth, 85. 

sire to son, 477. 
Blend our pleasure, 406. 
Bless, none whom we can, 469. 

thee Bottom. 33. 

the turf that wraps their clay, 

339- 
Blessed do above, 169. 

it is twice, 37. 

mood, 406. 

more, to give, 572. 

who ne'er was born, 241. 

with temper, 278. 

with the soft phrase of peace, 
123. 
Blessedness, single, 32. 
Blesses his stars, 250. 
Blesseth him that gives, 37. 
Blessing dear, expectation makes, 

157- 

most need of, 92. 

steal immortal, 80. 
Blessings be with them and eter- 
nal praise, 419. 

brighten as they take their 
flight, 263. 

on him that invented sleep, 9. 

wait on virtuous deeds, 256. 
Blest, always to be, 270. 

I have been, 478. 

paper-credit, 278. 

with some new joys, 229. 
Blind bard on the Chian strand, 
436. 

be to her faults, 241. 

dazzles to, 359. 

eyes to the, 545. 

guides, 569. 

he that is stricken, 76. 

his soul with clay, 521. 

lead the blind, 568. 

old man of Scio's rocky isle, 
479- 



Bliss, bowers of, 300. 

centres in the mind, 343. 

how exquisite the, 386. 

hues of, 335. 

ignorance is, 329. 

momentary, 328. 

of paradise, 362. 

of solitude, 404. 

source of all my, 347. 

virtue n^kes the, 276, 339. 

waking, 196. 

was it in that dawn to be 
alive, 425. 

winged hours of, 440. 
Blithe, no lark more, 357. 
Blockhead, the bookful, 283. 
Blood and state, 160. 

cold in, cold in clime, 478. 

drizzled upon the Capitol, 84. 

dyed waters, 439. 

felt in the, 406. 

flesh and, can't bear it, 305. 

freeze thy young, 106. 

hand raised to shed his, 269. 

hey-day in the, 115. 

in their dastardly veins, 458. 

more stirs, 55. 

of a British man, 121. 

of all the Howards, 274. 

of the Martyrs, 581. 

of tyrants, 394. 

rebellious liquors in my, 40. 

spoke in her cheeks, 143. 

stirs to rouse a lion, 55. 

summon up the, 63. 

unreclaimed, 108. 

was thin and old, 509. 

weltering in his, 220. 

whoso sheddeth, 540. 

will follow where the knife is 
driven, 268. 
Bloods, breed of noble, 83. 
Bloody instructions, 90. 
Bloom, kill the, before its time, 

-4°3- . • 

of young desire, 329. 
Blossom as the rose, 563. 

in the dust, 160. 

in the trees, 271. 
Blossomed the lovely stars, 532. 
Blossoms of my sin, 107. 
Blot, art to, 289. 

discreetly, 169 

one line could wish to. 324. 
Blow and a word, 230. 

bugle blow, 52b. 

hand that dealt the, 440. 

liberty in every, 388. 

signal, 265. 

swashing, 76. 



Index. 



627 



Blow, that gives the, 239. 

thou winter wind, 42. 

wind! come wrack, 99. 

word and a, 613. 
Blown with restless violence, 24. 
Blows, apostolic, 213. 

of circumstance, 523. 
Blue above and the blue below, 
503- 

and gold, 395. 

beautifully, 489. 

darkly deeply, 427. 

meagre hag, 196. 

sky bends over all, 431. 

the fresh the ever free, 503. 
Blunder, free us frae monie a, 386. 

in men this, 379. 

worse than a crime, 394. 
Blundering kind of melody, 223. 
Blunders round about a meaning, 

286. 
Blush of maiden shame, 514. 

shame where is thy, 115. 

to find it fame, 288. 

to give it in, 440. 
Blushes at the name, 511. 

bear away, 27. 

man that, 266. 
Blushing honours, 72. 

like the morn, 188. 
Boast not thyself, 556. 

of heraldry, 332. 
Boards, ships are but, 35. 
Boat is on the shore, 483. 
Boatman, take thrice thy fee, 500. 
Boats, little, keep near shore, 316. 
Bobbed for whale, 592. 
Bobtail tike, 121. 
Bodes some strange eruption, 100. 
Bodies, bore dead, 55. 

forth, 34. 

friendless, 162. 

ghosts of defunct, 213. 

of unburied men, 162. 

pressed the dead, 58. 

princes like to heavenly, 136. 
Boding tremblers, 346. 
Bodkin, bare, in. 
Body, absent in, 573. 

clog of his, 221. 

demd moist, 538. 

form doth take, 12. 

nature is, 271. 

or estate, 578. 

sickness-broken, 209. 

thought, almost say her, 143. 

to that pleasant country's, 53. 

with my, I thee worship, 579 
Bog or steep, 179. 
Boil like a pot, 546. 



Bokes clothed in black, 2. 
Bold bad man, 10, 71. 

peasantry, 344. 
Boldest held his breath, 442. 
Bond of fate, 96. 

't is not in the, 37. 
Bondage, eternity in, 251. 
Bondman let me live, 419. 

that would be a, 85. 
Bondman's key, 36. 
Bondsmen, hereditary, 469. 
Bone and skin two millers, 305. 

bites him to the, 314. 

of manhood, 352. 
Bones are coral, 17. 

cover to our, 53. 

full of dead men's, 569. 

good oft interred with their, 85. 

tell all my, 547. 

to lay his weary, j^. 

worn him to the, 80. 
Bononcini, compared to, 305. 
Booby, who 'd give her, 302. 
Book, adversary had written a, 

545- 

and heart must never part, 
600. 

and volume of my brain, 107. 

dainties bred in a, 30. 

face is as a, 90. 

I '11 drown my, 18. 

in gold clasps. 76. 

is a book though nothing 
in 't, 466. 

kill a good, 207. 

of fate, 269. 

of knowledge, 179. 

of nature short of leaves, 506. 

of songs and sonnets, 20. 

only read by me, 404. 

so fairly bound, 79. 

the precious life-blood, 208. 
Bookful blockhead, 2S3. 
Bookish theoric, 123. 
Books are a world, 41 S. 

authority from others', 29. 

cannot always please, 384. 

deep vers'd in, 192. 

in the running brooks, 39. 

making of many, 560. 

not in your, 26. 

of honour razed, 134. 

out of old, 4. 

quit your, 417. 

some to be tasted, 136. 

spectacles of, 230. 

talismans and spells, 365. 

tenets with, 275. 

that nourish all the world, 31 

the printers lost by, 209. 



628 



Index, 



Books to hold in the hand, 322. 
upon his head, 396. 
were woman's looks, 456. 
which are no books, 429. 
wiser grow without, 365. 
Booted and spurred, 233. 
Boots it at one gate, 193. 
Bo-peep, played at, 158. 
Bore a bright golden flower, 197. 

without abuse, 524. 
Bores and bored, 491. 
Born an American, 464. 
better ne'er been, 451. 
better to be lowly, 71. 
for the universe, 347. 
happy is he, 141. 
in the garret, 481. 
of woman, 544. 
to be a slave, 366. 
to blush unseen, 333. 
to set it right, 10S. 
to the manner, 104. 
under a rhyming planet, 28. 
who ne'er was, 241. 
Borne down by the flying, 446. 
like thy bubbles, 476. 
the burden of the day, 568. 
Borrowed wit, 151. 
Borrower, bettered by the, 206. 
is servant, 555. 
nor a lender be, 104. 
Borrowing dulls the edge, 104. 

such kind of, 208. 
Bosom, cleanse the stuffed, 98. 
confidence in an aged, 322. 
of God, 16. 
of his Father, 335. 
of the ocean, 68. 
thorns that in her, 107. 
was young, 442. 
Bosomed high in tufted trees, 201. 
Bosoms, come home to men's, 136. 
Bosom's lord sits lightly, 80. 
Bosom-weight, 40S. 
Boston, solid men of, 381. 

State-House, 534. 
Botanize upon his mother's grave, 

417. 
Both in the wrong, 301. 

were young, 482. 
Bottle, little for the, 379. 
Bottom, dive into the, 55. 
of the sea, 69. 
thou art translated, 33. 
Bough, Apollo's laurel, 16. 
Boughs are daily rifled, 506. 
Bound in shallows, 87. 

in those icy chains, 25. 
into saucy doubts, 94. 
Boundless contiguity of shade, 360. 



Boundless his wealth, 445. 
Bounds of modesty, 80. 

of place and time, 330. 

vulgar, 280. 
Bounties of an hour, 261. 
Bounty, large was his, 335. 
Bourbon or Nassau, 242. 
Bourn, no traveller returns, 111. 
Bout, winding, 202. 
Bow, stubborn knees, 115. 

two strings to his, 611. 
Bowels of compassion, 578. 

of the harmless earth, 55. 

of the land, 70. 
Bower, nuptir.l, 188. 

of roses, 452. 
Bowers of bliss, 300. 
Bowl be broken, 560. 

mingles with my friendly, 288. 
Box, twelve good men into a, 504. 
Boxes, beggarly account of, 80. 
Boy, love is a, 216. 

playing on the seashore, 237. 

stood on the burning deck, 

497- 

who would not be a, 469. 

you hear laughing, 537. 
Boyish days, 124. 
Boys, three merry, 147. 

wooing in my, 599. 
Brach or lyme, 121. 
Bradshaw bullied, 313. 
Braggart with my tongue, 97. 
Braids of lilies, 198. 
Brain, coinage of your, 116. 

heat-oppressed, 92. 

him with a fan, 56. 

madness in the, 432. 

memory warder of the, 91. 

of an idle, 77. 

paper bullets of the, 26. 

poet's, 142. 

too finely wrought, 357. 

vex the, 384. 

volume of my, 107. 

written troubles of the, 98. 
Brains could not move, 396. 

cudgel thy, 117. 

steal away their, 127. 

were out, 95. 
Branch, cut is the, 16. 
Branch-charmed, 498. 
Brandy for heroes, 321. 
Branksome hall, custom of, 444. 
Brass, evil manners live in, 73. 

sounding, 574. 
Brave days of old, 511. 

deserve the fair, 220. 

fears of the, 317. 

home of the, 491. 



Index. 



629 



Brave, how sleep the. 339. 

on, ye, 441. 

that are no more, 36S. 

toll for the, 36S. 
Brawling woman, 555. 
Bray a fool in a mortar, 557. 
Breach, imminent deadly. 124. 

more honoured in the, 104. 

once more unto the, 63. 
Bread and butter, smell of, 484. 

begged his, 164. 

crust of, 2S8. 

distressful, 64. 

eaten in secret, 552. 

half-pennyworth of, 57. 

he took aud brake it, 143. 

in sorrow ate, 534. 

is the staff of life, 247. 

man shall not live by, 566. 

upon the waters, 559. 
Break it to our hope, 99. 

of day, 24. 
Breakfast on a lion's lip, 63. 

with what appetite, 72. 
Breaking waves, 497. 
Breast, arm the obdured, 176. 

eternal in the human, 270. 

master-passion in the, 272. 

on her white, 284. 

snowy, 168. 

soothe the savage, 256. 

sunshine of the, 32S. 

tamer of the human, 329. 

thine ideal, 474. 

toss him to my, 156. 

where learning lies, 297. 

within his own clear. 196. 
Breastplate, what stronger, 66. 
Breath, bated, 36. 

boldest held his, 442. 

call the fleeting, 333. 

can make them, 344. 

good man yields his, 437. 

heaven's, 90. 

hope's perpetual, 413. 

is in his nostrils, 562. 

lightly draws its, 401. 

of kings, 390. 

of morn, 183. 

o'erthrows, 2S9. 

revives him, 289. 

suck my last, 294. 

summer's ripening, 78. 

weary of, 506. 
Breathe, thoughts that, 330. 
Breathed the long long night, 512. 
Breathes from yonder box, 284. 

must suffer, who, 241. 

there the man, 445. 
Breathing household laws, 413. 



Breathing of the common wind, 
412. 

we watched her, 506. 
Breathless with adoration, 409. 
Bred in a book, 30. 
Breech, where honour 's lodged, 

217. 
Breeches, are so queer, 535. 

cost but a crown, 126. 
Breed, how use doth, 19. 

of noble bloods, 83. 
Breeding, to show your, 3S4. 
Breeds by a composture, 81. 
Breeze, every passing, 460. 

refreshes in the, 271. 
Brentford, two kings of, 360. 
Brethren in unity. 551. 
Brevity is the soul of wit, 108. 
Briars, working-day full of, 39. 
Bribe, too poor for a, 336. 
Brick-dust man, 314. 
Bricks are alive this day, 66. 
Bridal chamber, come to the, 528. 

of the earth, 155. 
Bride, glittering, 423. 
Bridegroom, fresh as a, 54. 
Bridge of sighs, 473. 
Brief as the lightning, 32. 

as woman's love, 113. 

authority, 23. 

let me be, 106. 
Bright, angels are still, 97. 

as young diamonds, 228. 

consummate flower, 185. ■' 

excessive, 180. 

honour, pluck, 55. 

must fade, 456. 

particular star, 45. 

promise of early day, 460. 

waters meet, 454. 
Brighten, blessings, 263. 
Brightens, how the wit, 2S2. 
Brightest and best of the sons of 
the morning, 460. 

still the fleetest, 456. 
Bright-eyed Fancy, 330. 

Science, 332. 
Brightness, her original, 172. 
Brilliant Frenchman, 366. 
Bring me to the test, 116. 

sad thoughts, 417. 

the day, 154. 

the pen, 505. 

the philosophic mind, 422. 

the rathe primrose, 200. 

your wounded hearts, 458. 
Bnnger of unwelcome news, 60. 
Brings me to an end, 251. 
Britain first at Heaven's com- 
mand, 312. 



630 



Index. 



Britain's monarch uncovered sat, 

„ . 3?3- 

Britannia needs no bulwarks, 441. 

rules the waves, 312. 
Brither, like a vera, 388. 
Briton even in love, 402. 
Britons never shall be slaves. 312. 
Broad based upon her people's 

will, 517. 
Broadcloth without, 365. 
Broke the die, Nature, 482. 

the good meeting, 95. 
Broken-hearted, ne'er been, 389. 
Brokenly live on, 471. 
Broil and battle, 123. 
Broods and sleeps, 418. 
Brook and river meet, 532. 
can see no moon, 454. 
noise like of a hidden, 430. 
sparkling with a, 492 
Brooks, books in the running, 39. 
in Yallombrosa, 171. 
make rivers, 227. 
near the running, 418. 
Broomstick, write finely on a, 247. 
Brother, closer than a, 555. 
followed brother, 421. 
man ar.d a, 591. 
near the throne, 286. 
of the Angle, 153. 
Brotherhood, monastic, 423. 

of venerable trees. 412. 
Brothers in distress, 386. 
Brother's keeper, 540. 
Brow, anguish wrings the, 447. 
furrows on another's; 265. 
grace was seated on this, 115. 
of Egypt, 34. 
Brows bound with victorious 
wreaths, 6S. 
gathering her, 385. 
whose shady, 194. 
Bruise, parmaceti for, 55. 
Bruised reed, 563. 

with adversity, 25. 
Brushing with hasty steps, 334. 
Brute deny'd, 189. 

not quite a, 266. 
Brutish, life of man, 151. 
Brutus grows so covetous, 87. 
is an honourable man, 85. 
will start a spirit, 83. 
Bubble burst, 269. 

empty, honour but an, 221. 
on the fountain, 448. 
reputation, &\. 
Bubbles, borne like thy, 476. 

the earth hath, 88.' 
Bubbling and loud-hissing urn, 
363. i 



Bubbling cry of some strong swim- 
mer, 487. 

groan, 476. 

venom flings, 468. 
Bucket, as a drop of a, 563. 

iron-bound, 451. 

moss-covered, 451. 

the old oaken, 451. 
Buckets into empty wells, 362. 
Buckingham, so much for, 248. 
Buckram, rogues in, 56. 
Bud, bit with an envious worm, 
.76. 

like a worm in the, 47. 

of love, 78. 

offered in the, 254. 

to heaven conveyed, 434. 
\ Budding rose above the rose, 42;. 

rose- is fairest when 'tis, 449. 
Buds the promise, 268. 
Buff and the blue, 390. 
Buffets and rewards, 113. 
Bug in a rug. 316. 
Bugle horn, blast upon his, 449. 
Build for him, others should, 405. 

not boast, he lives to, 307. 

the lofty rhyme, 199. 
Builded better than he knew, 527. 
Building, life of the, 93. 
Built a lordly pleasure-house, 517. 

a paper-mill, 67. 

God a church, 366. 

in the eclipse, 200. 

on stubble, 197. 
Bullied in a broad-brimmed hat, 

3i3- 
Bullocks at Stamford Fair, 61. 

talk is of, 562. 
Bully, like a tail, 279. 
Bulrushes, dam the Nile with, 516. 
Bulwark, floating. 356. 
Bulwarks, Britannia needs no, 441. 
Bunghole, stopping a, 118. 
Burden and heat of the day, 568. 

loads the day, 205. 

man bear his own, 575. 

of some merry song, 288 

of the mystery, 406. 

of three-score, 343. 

the grasshopper a, 557. 
Burdens of the Bible, old, 527. 
Burglary, flat, 2S. 
Burn daylight, 20. 

to the socket, 422. 

words that, 336. 
Burned, half his Troy, 60. 

is Apollo's laurel bough, 16. 
Burning and a shining light, 571. 
deck, boy stood on the, 497. 
marie, 171. 



Index. 



631 



Burning, one fire burns out anoth- 
er's, 76. 
Burnished dove, 518. 
Burns with one love, 298. 
Burrs, conversation's, 536. 
Burst in ignorance. 105. 
Burthen of his song, 358. 
Bush, good wine needs no, 43. 

man in the, 527. 

the thief doth fear each, 67. 
Business, diligent in, 555. 

dinner lubricates, 377. 

feeling of his, 117. 

home to men's, 136. 

hours set apart for, 314. 

in great waters, 550. 

men some to, 277. 

of the day, 224. 

prayer all his, 259. 
Busy bee, 254. 

hammers closing rivets, 64. 

hum of men, 201. 
Busy-bodies, 576. 
But me no buts, 614. 

on and up, 500. 

what am I? 523. 
Butchered their sire, 475. 
Butchers, gentle with these, 85. 
Butter in a lordly dish, 541. 

smoother than, 548. 
Butterfly, I 'd be a, 502. 

upon a wheel, 287. 
Button on Fortune's cap, 109. 
Buttoned down before, 526. 
Buttons be disclosed, 103. 
Buy it, they lose it that do, 34. 
By strangers mourned, 296. 

that sin fell the angels, 72. 
By-word, proverb and a, 542. 

Cabined, cribbed, 94. 

loop-hole, 195. 
Cadmean victory, 581. 
Cadmus letters gave, 488. 
Caesar dead and turned to clav, 
118. 

had his Brutus, 375. 

hath wept, 85. 

in every wound of, 86. 

not that I loved less, 85. 

with a senate at his heels, 275. 

word of, 86. 
Caesar's, things which are, 569. 

wife above suspicion, 5S2. 
Cage, iron bars a, 161. 
Cages, it happens as with, 162. 
Cain the first city made, 167. 
Cake, eat thy, and have it, 156. 

is dough, 44. 
Cakes and ale, 46. 



Calamity is man's true touch- 
stone, 149. 

of so long life, no. 
Caledonia stern and wild, 446. 
! CalPs-skin on recreant limbs. 50. 
j Call evil good, 562. 

for the robin-redbreast, 162, 

it holy ground, 497. 

it not vain, 445. 

me early mother dear, 518. 

to-day his own, 227. 

us to penance, 174. 

you that backing ? 56. 
Called, many are, 568. 

the tailor lown, 126. 
Caller, him who calleth be the, 243. 
Calling shapes, 195. 
Calls back the lovely April, 134. 
Calm, here find that, 319. 

lights of philosophy, 250. 

repose, 335. 

so deep, 410. 

thou mayst smile, 380. 

thoughts, 435. 
Calumny, shall not escape, in. 
Calvinistic creed, 2-3- 
Cambuscan bold, story of, 203. 
j Cambyses' vein, 56. 
Came prologue, excuse, 190. 

to the beach, 441. 
Camel, like a, 114. 

shape of a, 114. 

swallow a, 569. 

through the eye of a needle, 

. 569- 
Camilla scours the plain, 282. 
Can any mortal mixture? 195. 

imagination boast, 30S. 

it be that this is all, 477. 

such things be, 95. 

this be death, 295. 
Candid friend, 398. 

where we can, be, 269. 
Candied tongue, 113. 
Candle, hold a, 305. 

match with the, 267. 

not worth the, 156. 

out out brief, 98. 

throws his beams, 38. 

to the sun, 267. 

to thy merit, 314. 
Candles are all out, 91. 

night's, are burnt out, 80. 
Cane, clouded, 2S5. 
Canker and the grief are mine, 485. 

galls the infants, 103. 
Cankers of a calm world, 58. 
Cannon by our sides, 119. 
I Cannon's mouth, in the. 41. 
! Cannot come to good, 102. 



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Index. 



Cannot tell how the truth may be, 

444-. 

Canon 'gainst self-slaughter, 101. 
Canonized bones, 105. 
Canopied by the blue sky, 483. 
Canopy, most excellent, 109. 

under the, 75. 
Cap of youth, 117. 

whiter than the driven snow, 

327- 
Capability and godlike reason, 1 16. 
Capitol, betrayed the, 236. 

drizzled blood upon the, 84. 
Captain, a choleric word, in the, 23. 

Christ, 53. 

ill, attending, 135. 

jewels in the carcanet, 135. 
Captive, all ears took, 45. 

good, attending, 135. 
Capulets, tomb of the, 355. 
Carcanet, jewels in the, 135. 
Carcase is, eagles will gather, 569. 

of Robinson Crusoe, 340. 
Card, reason the, 272. 

speak by the, 117. 
Cards, old age of, 278. 
Care adds a nail, 373. 

beyond to-day, 328. 

fig for, 140. 

for nobody, 358. 

his useful, was ever nigh, 318. 

in heaven, is there, ir. 

is an enemy to life, 46. 

keeps his watch, 79. 

life of, 494. 

o' the main chance, 217. 

ravelled sleave of, 93. 

that buy it with much, 34 

will kill a cat, 151. 

wrinkled, 201. 
Cared not to be at all, 174. 
Career of his humour, 26. 
Careless childhood, 328. 

of the single life, 523. 

shoe-string, 159. 

their merits, 345. 
Cares beguiled by sports, 342. 

dividing, 399. 

eating, 202. 

fret thy soul with, 12. 

heart of a man is depressed 
with, 301. 

nobler loves and, 419. 

that infest the day, 532. 
Caress, wooing the, 485. 
Carnage is his daughter, 414. 
Carnegie, John, lais heer, 242. 
Carpet knights, 597. 
Carrying three insides, 398. 
Cart, ballads from a, 228. 



Carved not a line, 499. 

with figures strange, 431. 
Carver's brain, 431. 
Casca, the envious, 86. 
Case, lady is in the, 303. 

reason of the, 233. 
Cassius, help me, 82. 

lean and hungry, 83. 
Cast bread upon the waters, 559. 

of thought, it 1. 

off his friends, 348. 

set my life upon a, 71. 
Casting a dim religious light, 203. 

with unpurchased hand, 535. 
Castle, a man's house is his, 8. 

hath a pleasant seat, 90. 
Castled crag of Drachenfels, 471. 

Rhine, 531. 
Castles in the air, 603. 

in the clouds, 310. 
Casuists doubt, 278. 
Cat, care will kill a, 151. 

endow a college or a, 278. 

i' the adage, 91. 

monstrous tail our, has, 244. 

will mew, 119. 
Catalogue, go for men in the, 94. 
Cataracts, silent, 433. 
Catastrophe, I '11 tickle your, 60. 
Catch larks, 6. 

my flying soul, 294. 

the driving gale, 273. 

the manners, 269. 

the transient hour, 318. 
Caters for the sparrow, 39. 
Cathay, cycle of, 520. 
Cato, big with the fate of, 250. 

give his little senate laws, 287, 
297. 

the sententious, 490. 
Cattle are grazing, 405. 

upon a thousand hills, 548. 
Caucasus, frosty, 52. 
Caught by glare, 468. 

my heavenly jewel, 14. 
Cause, grace my, 123. 

hear me for my, 85. 

magnificent and awful, 361. 

me no causes, 613. 

of a long ten years' war, 236. 

of all men's misery, 16. 

of mankind, 454. 

of policy, 62. 

of this defect, 108. 

report me and my, 119. 
Causes and occasions, 65. 
Caution, could pausing, 388. 
Caution's lesson scorning, 388. 
Cave, the darksome, 10. 

vacant interlunar, 193. 



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633 



Cavern, misery's darkest 318. 
Caverns, measureless, 434. 
Caviare to the general, 109. 
Cavil on the ninth part of a hair, 57. 
Caw, says he, 370. 
Cease every joy, 440. 

ye from man, 562. 
Ceases to be a virtue, 351. 
Ceasing of exquisite music, 532. 
Celebrated. Saviours birth is, 100. 
Celestial rosv red, 1S8. 
Cell, prophetic, 204. 
Cement of the soul. 307. 
Censer, eye was on the, 536. 
Censure is the tax, 247. 

mouths of wisest, 126. 

take each man's, 104. 
Cent for tribute, 393. 
Centre, faith has, everywhere, 522. 
Centres in the mind, 343. 
Centric and eccentric, 187. 
Century, well wait a, 160. 
Cerberus, like, three gentlemen at 

once, 382. 
Cerements, burst their, 105. 
Ceremony enforced, 86. 

to great ones, 23. 
Certainty, sober, 196. 

to please, 399. 
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry 

away, 491. 
Cervantes' serious air, 291. 
Chaff, two bushels of, 35. 
Chain, electric, 473. 

in a golden, 179. 
Chains, bound in those icy, 26. 

magic, ig5. 

untwisting all the, 202. 
Chair, little one's, 539. 

one vacant, 533. 

rack of a too easy, 292. 
Chalice, our poisoned, 90. 
Chamber where the good man 

meets his fate, 263. 
Champagne and a chicken, 303. 
Champion cased in adamant, 416. 
Champions fierce strive, 178. 
Chance, all, direction, 271. 

lucky, decides the fate of mon- 
archy, 309. 

main. 217. 

right by, 367. 

skirts of happy, 523. 

time and, 556. 

to fall below Demosthenes, 
_ 393- 

Chancellor in embryo, 327. 
Chancellor's foot, 152. 
Chances, most disastrous. 124. 
Change came o'er my dream, 482. 

27* 



Change can give no more, 234. 

fear of, perplexes monarchs, 
172. 

of many-coloured life, 318. 

old love for new, 140. 

ringing grooves of, 519. 

such a, 472. 
Changed, mind not to be, 171. 
Changeful dream, 449. 
Chanticleer, crow like, 40. 
Chaos and eldest night, 172, 17S. 

is come again, 127. 

is restored, 293. 

of thought, 272. 
Chaos-like, 294. 

Chapel, devil builds a, 156, 240. 
Character I leave behind me, 383. 
Characters from high life, 276. 

of hell to trace, 331. 
Charge, Chester, charge, 447. 

is prepared, 302. 
Chariest maid is prodigal enough, 

. 103. 
Chariots, brazen, 186. 
Charitable intents, 105. 
Charities that soothe. 425. 
Charity, a little earth for, 73. 

all mankind's concern is, 274. 

covers multitudes of sins, 577. 

melting, 62. 
Charm of earliest birds, 183. 

of poetry and love, 416. 

one native, 346. 

power to, 101. 

remoter, 406. 

that lulls to sleep, 348. 

to stay the morning star, 433. 
Charmed life, I bear a. 99. 
Charmer, hope the, 439. 

sinner it, 277. 

't other dear, 301. 
Charmers, like other, 485. 

voice of, 548. 
Charming, he saw her, 309. 

is divine philosophy, 197. 

never so wisely. 548. 
Charms, music hath, 256. 

or ear or sight, 435. 

strike the sight, 285. 

where are the. 369. 
Charter large as the wind, 41. 
Chartered libertine, 62. 
Charybdis your mother, 36. 
Chase, in piteous, 39. 
Chased with more spirit, 36. 
Chasms and watery depths, 436. 
Chaste as ice, 111. 

as morning dew, 264. 

as the icicle, 75. 

muse, 324. 



634 



Index. 



Chasteneth whom he loveth, 577. 
Chastises whom most he likes, 239. 
Chastity my brother, 196. 

of honour, 353. 

saintly, 197. 
Chatham's language, 361. 
Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 

4°5- 
Cheap defence of nations, 353. 
Cheat, 't is all a, 229. 
Cheated, pleasure of being, 217. 
Check to loose behaviour, 249. 
Checkered paths of joy, 315. 
Cheek, feed on her damask, 47. 

he that loves a rosy, 150. 

of night, 77. 

o'er her warm, 329. 

tears down Pluto's, 203. 

that I might touch, 77. 

the roses from your, 325. 

upon her hand, 77. 
Cheeks, blood spoke in her, 143. 

crack your, 120. 

stain my man's, 120. 
Cheer, be of good, 568. 

cups that, 363. 

make good, 7. 
Cheerful countenance, 553. 

dawn, 404. 

godliness, 413. 

ways of men, 179. 

yesterdays, 425. 
Cheese, moon made of green, 608. 
Cheese-paring, man made of, 61. 
Cherish and to obey, 579. 

hearts must have to, 534. 

those hearts that hate, 73. 
Cherry, like to a double, 33. 

ripe ripe do cry, 139, 159. 
Cherub, sweet little, 379. 
Cherubins, young-eyed, 38. 
Chest of drawers, by day, 346. 
Chewing the food of fancy, 43. 
Chian strand, 436. 
Chickens, all my pretty, 97. 

hen gathereth her, 569. 

count your, ere they 're 
hatched, 217. 
Chief a rod, 274. 

vain was the, 290. 
Chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, 386. 
Child, a curious, 423. 

a naked new-born, 380. 

a simple, 401. 

a three years', 425. 

grief fills the room of my ab- 
sent, 50. 

in simplicity, 296. 

is father of the man, 401. 

is not mine, 539. 



Child, like a tired, 494. 

of many prayers, 532. 

of misery, 373. 

of our grandmother Eve, 29. 

of suffering, 536. 

spake as a, 574. 

spoil the, 216. 

thankless, 120. 

train up a, 555. 

wise father that knows his 
own, 36. 
Childhood, careless, 328. 

days of, 429. 

fleeted by, 509. 

shows the man, 192. 
Childhood's hour, 452. 
Childish ignorance, 507. 

treble, 41. 
Childishness, second, 42. 
Children, airy hopes my, 423. 

call her blessed, 557. 

gathering pebbles, 192. 

like olive-plants, 551. 

of a larger growth, 228. 

of an idle brain, 77. 

of light, 570. 

of the sun, 268. 

of this world, 570. 

Rachel weeping for, 566. 

sports of, 342. 

tale which holdeth, 14. 

through the mirthful maze t 

343- 
Chill penury, 333. 
Chills the lap of May, 342. 
Chime, to guide their, 219. 
Chimaeras dire, 177. 
Chimes at midnight, 61. 
Chimney in my father's house, 66. 
Chimney-corner, old men from 

the, 14. 
Chimney-sweepers come to dust, 

133- 
Chin, compared with that was 

next her, 157. 
China fall, 278. 

to Peru, 317. 
Chink of her sickness-broken 

body, 209. 
Chinks that time has made, 168. 
Chivalry, age of, 353. 

beauty and her, 470. 
Choice and master spirits, 84. 
in rotten apples, 44. 
ofloss, 131. 
word and measured phrase, 

4°5- 
Choicely good, 153. 
Choose a firm cloud, 277. 
an author, 232. 



Index. 



635 



Choose not alone to marry, 368. 

thine own time, 378. 

where to, igi. 
Choosing and beginning late, 188. 
Chord in melancholy, 507. 

in unison, 364. 
Chords, smote on all the, 518. 
Chorus, ready, 385. 
Chosen, few are, 568. 

that good part, 570. 
Christ, to live is, 575. 

unto his captain, 53. 
Christian faithful man, 69. 

God Almighty's gentleman, 
264. 

is the highest style of man, 
264. 
Christians burned each other, 486. 
Christmas comes once a year, 7. 
Chronicle small beer, 126. 
Chronicler, such an honest, 74. 
Chronicles, abstracts and brief, 

109. 
Chrononhotonthologos, 243. 
Chrysolite, perfect, 130. 
Chuckle, one's fancy, 231. 
Church, army physic, 370. 

built God a, 366. 

forgotten the inside of a, 57. 

of England, 323. 

seed of the, 581. 

some repair to, 281. 

to be of no, 320. 

who builds to God a, 279. 

without a bishop, 508. 
Church -door, wide as a, 79. 
Churches, scab of the, 142. 
Church-going bell, 369. 
Churchyard, mouldy, 508. 

stone, beneath the, 509. 
Churchyards yawn, 114. 
Chylden's game, 607. 
Chymist fiddler, 223. 
Cigar, give me a, 485. 
Cimmerian darkness, 440. 
Cinnamon, tinct with, 498. 
Circle, within that magic, 228. 
Circles the earth, 464. 
Circuit is Elysium, 67. 
Circumstance allows, 262. 

blows of, 523. 

of glorious war, 129. 
Citadel, sea-girt, 469. 

tower'd, 132. 
Cities, far from gay, 299. 

seven mighty, strove, 164. 

seven, warr'd for Homer, 164. 
Citizens, fat and greasy, 39. 

man made us, 539. 
City of Cologne, 435. 



City, populous, pent, 189. 

set on an hill, 566. 
Civet in the room, 367. 

ounce of, 122. 
Civil discord, 252. 
Civility* wild, 159. 
Clad in blue and gold, 395. 
in complete steel, 196. 
Claims of long descent, 517. 
Clamours, Jove's dread, 129 
Clapper-clawing, 216. 
Claret is the liquor for boys, 321. 
Clasps, book in gold, 76. 
Classic ground, 252. 
Clay, blind his soul with, 521. 
could think, 414. 
of humankind, 230. 
porcelain of human, 4S9. 
tenement of, 221. 
turned to, 118. 
wraps their, 339. 
Cleanliness next to godliness, 312. 
Cleanse the stuffed bosom, 98. 
Clear as a whistle, 305. 
deep yet, 164. 
in his great office, 90. 
your looks, 417. 
Clerk foredoomed, 285. 
me no clerks, 614. 
ther was of Oxenforde, 2. 
Clever man by nature, 396. 
Clicked behind the door, 346. 
Clients, nest-eggs to make, 219. 
Cliff rent asunder, 432. 

some tall, 345. 
Climb, fain would I, 13. 
hard it is to, 359. 
why then, at all, 13. 
Climber upward, 83. 
Climbing sorrow, 120. 
Clime adored, 295. 
cold in, 478. 
done in their, 478. 
ravage all the, 359. 
some brighter, 378. 
Climes, cloudless, 481. 
Clink of hammers, 248. 
Clip an angel's wing, 498. 
Cloak, martial, 499. 
Cloaked from head to foot, 522. 
Clock, finger of a, 363. 
Shrewsbury, 59. 
varnished, 346. 
worn out, 229. 
Clod, kneaded, 24. 
Clog of his body, 221. 
Cloistered virtue, 20S. 
Close against the sky, 507. 
of the day, 359. 
the shutter fast, 363. 



636 



Index, 



Closeness all dedicated, 17. 
Clothe a man in rags, 555. 

my naked villany, 69. 
Clothed in black or red, 2. 
Clothes, tattered, 122. 

wantonness in, 159. 

when he put on his, 349. 
Clothing the palpable, 436. 
Cloud-capped towers, 18. 
Cloud, choose a firm, 277. 

like a summer, 95. 

of witnesses, 576. 

out of the sea, 540. 

pillar of a, 541. 

sable, 195. 

that 's dragonish, 132. 

which wraps the present hour, 

337-. 

with silver lining, 195. 
Clouds, castles in the, 310. 

fought upon the, 84. 

he that regardeth the, 559. 

hooded like friars, 531. 

impregns the, 182. 

looks in the, 83. 

of glory, 421. 

plighted, 196. 

robe of, 483. 

sees God in, 270. 

sit in the, 60. 

that gather round, 422. 

that lowered upon our house, 
68. 

thy, dispel all other, 526. 
Clouted shoon, 197. 
Cloy the edge of appetite, 52. 
Clubs, typical of strife, 363. 
Clutch the golden keys, 523. 
Coach, go call a, 243. 
Coals of fire on his head, 556, 573. 
Coat buttoned down before, 526. 
Coats, hole in a' your, 386. 
Cockloft is empty, 210. 
Code, shines to no, 528. 
Coffee, which makes the politician 

wise, 284. 
Cofre, litle gold in, 2. 
Cogibundity of cogitation, 243. 
Cogitative faculties, 243. 
Cohorts were gleaming, 481. 
Coigne of vantage, 90. 
Coil, not worth this, 49. 

shuffle off this mortal, no. 
Coinage of your brain, 116. 
Coincidence, strange, 490. 
Cold ear of death, 333. 

for the hot, 9. 

in blood, 478. 

in clime, 478. 

indifference came, 457. 



Cold marble leapt, 499. 

neutrality, 354. 

on Canadian hills, 373. 

performs the effect of fire, 
176. 

the changed, 473. 

waters to a thirsty soul, 556. 
Coldly furnish forth, 102. 

heard, 505. 

sweet, 477. 
Cold-pausing caution, 388. 
Coleridge, mortal powers of, 421. 
Coliseum, while stands the, 475. 
Collar, braw brass, 387. 
College-joke, 246. 
Collied night, 32. 
Collier and a barber fight, 314. 
Cologne, wash your city of, 435. 
Coloquintida, bitter as, 125. 
Colossus, like a, 82. 
Colours a suffusion, 435. 

idly spread, 50. 

of the rainbow, 196. 
Columbia happy land, 428. 
Combat deepens, 441. 

wit in the, 459. 
Combination and a form, 115. 
Combine, bad men, 351. 
Come and trip it, 201. 

as the waves come, 449. 

as the winds come, 449. 

forth into the light, 417. 

gentle spring, 308. 

home to men's bosoms, 136. 

in between and bid us part, 

3"- 

in the rearward of a woe, 135. 

like shadows, 96. 

live with me, 15. 

one come all, 449. 

perfect days, 539. 

rest in this bosom, 456. 

send round the wine, 454. 

to the bridal chamber, 5^7. 

to this, has it, 101. 

unto these yellow sands, 17. 

what come may, 89. 

when you call them, 57. 
Comes a reckoning, 301. 

the blind fury, 199. 

the brick-dust man, 314. 

this way sailing, 193. 

to be denied, 303 

unlooked for, 294. 
Cometh al this new corne, 4. 

al this new science, 4. 
Comets, no, seen, 84. 
Comfort and command, 404. 

flows from ignorance, 243. 

in a face, 12. 



Index. 



637 



Comfort to my age, 39. 
Comforted, would not be, 566. 
Comforters, miserable, 544. 
Coming events, 441. 

eye will mark our, 4S6. 
Command success, 250. 
Commandments, set my ten, 66. 
Commands all light, 147. 
Comment on the shows, 414. 
Commentators each dark passage 
shun, 267. 

plain, 384. 
Common as light is love, 494. 

growth of mother earth, 409. 

he nothing, did, 219. 

men, roll of, 160. 

people of the skies, 141. 

souls, flight of, 341. 

sun, air, 335. 

use, remote from, 486. 

walk, privileged beyond the 
263. 
Commonplace of nature, 403. 
Communion holds, 513. 

sweet, quaff. 185. 
Compact, imagination all, 33. 
Companies of men, 219. 
Companion, even thou my, 58®. 
Companions, best, 344. 

I have had, 429. 

musing on, 446. 

thou 'dst unfold, 130. 
Company, faithful dog shall bear 
him, 270 

shirt and a half in, 58. 

with pain, 419. 
Compare, beautiful beyond, 438. 

great with small, 603. 
Comparisons are odious, 143, 154. 

are odorous, 27, 604. 
Compass, narrow, 168. 

of a guinea, 465. 
Compassed by inviolate sea, 517. 
Compassion, bowels of, 578. 
Compelled sins, 23. 
Competence, peace and, 274. 
Complete steel, 196. 
Complies against his will, 219. 
Composture of excrement, 81. 
Compound for sins, 213. 

of villanous smell, 21. 
Compulsion, a reason on, 56. 
Compunctious visitings, 89. 
Compute, what 's done we may, 

3 86 - 
Comus and his midnight crew, 

332. 
Concatenation accordingly, 351. 
Concealment like a worm, 47. 
Conceit, wise in his own, 556. 



Conceits, wise in your own, 572. 
Concentred in a life intense, 472. 
Conception of the joyous prime, 

472. 
Concerted harmonies, 505. 
Conclusion, a foregone, 129. 

impotent, 126. 

of the whole matter, 561. 
Concord, heart in, 402. 

holds, firm, 176. 

of sweet sounds, 38. 
Condemn the fault, 23. 

the wrong, 585. 
Condemned alike to groan, 32S. 

with life to part, 349. 
Condescend to take a bit, 246. 
Condition, wearisome, 14. 
Conduct and equipage, 244. 

of a clouded cane, 285. 

still right, 347. 
Confer, nothing to, 402. 
Conference a ready man, 136. 
Confidence of reason, 419. 

plant of slow growth, 322. 
Confident to-morrows, 425. 
Confine, hies to his, 100. 
Confines of daylight, 20S. 
Confirm the tidings, 253. 
Confirmations strong, 128. 
Conflict, dire was the, 186. 

irrepressible, 515. 

rueful, 411. 
Confusion his masterpiece, 93. 

on thy banners, 330. 

worse confounded, 179. 
Congenial to my heart, 346. 
Congregate, merchants, 55. 
Congregation of vapours, 109. 
Conjectures. I am weary of, 251. 
Conjure with them, 83. 
Conquer Love, they, that run, 150. 

our fate, 442. 

twenty worlds, 165. 

we must when our cause it is 
just, 491. 
Conqueror creates a muse, 169. 

proud foot of a, 51. 
Conquerors, a lean fellow beats all, 

165. 
Conquest, ever since the, 234. 
Conquest's crimson wing, 330. 
Conscience avaunt, 249. 

catch the, no. 

coward, 70. 

does make cowards, in. 

hath a thousand tongues, 70. 

is corrupted, 66. 

of the worth, 188. 

wake despair, 180. 

with gallantry, 383. 



6 3 8 



Index. 



Conscious water, 163. 
Consecration and Poet's dream, 

420. 
Consequence, deepest, 88. 

trammel up the, 90. 
Consent, will ne'er, 486. 
Consider the lilies, 567. 
Consideration like an angel, 62. 
Considered! the poor, 548. 
Constable, outrun the, 215. 
Constancy lives in realms above, 

43i. 
Constant as the northern star, 84. 

service of the antique world, 
40. 
Constellations, happy, 188. 
Construction, mind's, 89. 
Consumedly, laughs, 258. 
Consummation devoutly to be 

wished, no. 
Consumption's ghastly form, 527. 
Contagion to this world, 114. 
Contagious blastments, 103. 
Contemplation, formed for, 181. 

of my travels, 42. 
Contemporaneous posterity, 601. 
Contempt upon familiarity, 20. 
Content and poor, 128. 

farewell, 129. 

humble livers in, 71. 

if hence the unlearned, 283. 

measureless, 91. 

to dwell in decencies, 277. 
Contented, when one is, 8. 
Contentions, fat, 207. 
Contentious woman, 557. 
Contentment of the noblest mind, 

10. 
Contests from trivial things, 284. 
Contiguity of shade, 360. 
Continual dropping, 557. 

plodders. 29. 
Contortions of the sibyl, 355. 
Contradiction, woman 's a, 278. 
Contrived a double debt, 346. 
Controls them and subdues, 419. 
Conversation coped withal, 112. 
Conversation's burrs, 536. 
Converse, formed by thy, 275. 

with the mighty dead, 310 
Conversing, I forget all time, 183. 
Convey, the wise call it, 20. 
Conveyed, bud to heaven, 434. 

the dismal tidings, 346. 
Convolutions of a shell, 423. 
Cool reflection came, 451. 

sequestered vale, 334. 

shade of aristocracy, 465. 
Cope of heaven, 184. 
Coped withal, 112. 



Corages, nature in hir, 1. 
Coral, his bones are, 17. 
Cord be loosed, 560. 

threefold, 558. 
Cordial, gold in phisike is a, 2. 

to the soul, 210. 
Core, heart's, 113. 
Corinthian lad of mettle, 56. 
Corioli, Volscians in, 75. 
Cormorant, like a, 181. 
Corn, reap an acre of, 402. 

two ears of, 246. 

unbending, 282. 
' Corne, cometh al this new, 4. 
Corner of the house-top, 555. 

sits the wind in that, 2b. 
Corners of the world, 51. 
Corner-stone of a nation, 532. 
Coronets, kind hearts are more 

than, 517. 
Corporal sufferance, 24. 
Corporations no souls, 8. 
Corpse of public credit, 463. 
Corrector of enormous times, 150. 
Correggios and stuff, 348. 
Correspondent to command, 17. 
Corrupt good manners, 574. 

* the youth, 67. 
Corrupted freemen, 338. 
Corruption, honour from, 74. 

lighter wings, 278. 

wins not more, 73. 
Corsair's name, he left a, 480. 
Corse, unhandsome, 55. 
Cortez, like stout, 499. 
Cost a sigh, 378. 
Costard, rational hind, 29. 
Costly thy habit, 104. 
Cot beside the hill, 399. 
Cottage of gentility, 427. 

poorest man in his, 323. 

the soul's dark, 168. 

with a double coach-house, 

427- 
Couch, drapery of his, 513. 

grassy, 182. 

in sorrow steep, 387. 

of war, 125. 
Couched with revenge, 181. 
Could ever hear by tale, 32. 

I flow like thee, 164. 

not the grave forget thee, 475. 

play the woman, 97. 

we forbear dispute, 169. 
Counsel darkeneth, 545. 

in his face, 175. 

sometimes, take, 284. 

together, 548. 
Counsellors, multitude of, 553. 
Counsels, maturest, 174. 



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639 



Counsels sweet, 385. 
Count our spoons, 321. 

that day lost, 6oi. 

their chickens, 217. 

time by heart-throbs, 516. 
Countenance, disinheriting, 383. 

more in sorrow, 102. 

of his friend, man sharpeneth 
the, 557. 

of truth, 206. 
Counterfeit a gloom, 203. 

presentment, 115. 
Counterfeited glee, 346. 
Counters, such rascal, 87. 

wise men's, 151. 
Countless thousands mourn, 388. 
Country bleeding. 439. 

God made the, 360. 

good of my, 258. 

he sighed for his, 442. 

his first best, 342. 

in another, 197. 

left, for country's good, 391. 

loved my, 485. 

right or wrong, 461. 

undiscovered, 111. 
Country's cause, 297. 

wishes blessed, 339. 
Courage and compassion, 252. 

mounteth with occasion, 49. 

never to submit, 170. 

screw your, 91. 
Couriers of the air, 91. 
Course, I have finished my, 576. 

of empire, 257. 

of human events, 376. 

of justice, 37. 

of one revolving moon, 223. 

of true love, 32. 
Courses, steer their, 214. 
Courted in your girls again, 599. 

by all the winds, 193. 
Courteous, the retort, 443. 

though coy, 384. 
Courtesy, heart of, 14. 

pink of, 79. 
Courtier, heel of the, 11S. 
Courtier's, scholar's eye, 112. 
Courtsied when you have, 17. 
Courts, day in thy, 549. 
Covenant with death, 563. 
Coventry, march through, 58. 
Cover my head now, 508. 
Covered with two narrow words, 

Hie jaset, 13. 
Covert yield, try what the, 2S9. 
Covetousness, cause of, 16. 
Coward conscience, 70. 

flattery to name a, 400. 

instinct, 56. 



Coward sneaks to death, 300. 

that would not dare, 446. 

thou slave, 50. 
Cowards, conscience makes, 111. 

die many times, 84. 

plague of all, 56. 
Cowslips wan, 200. 
Cowslip's bell I lie, 18. 
Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley, 337. 
Coy and hard to please, 447. 

courteous though, 384. 

submission, 182. 
Cozenage, strange, 229. 
Crabbed age and youth, 134. 

and harsh, 197. 
Crab-tree and old iron rang, 214. 
Crack of doom, 96. 

the voice of melody, 536. 

your cheeks, 120. 
Cradle, little one's, 539. 

of reposing age, 287. 

standing in the, 146. 
Cradled into poetry, 494. 
Cradles rock us, 265. 
Craft so long to lerne, 4. 
Craftiness, wise in their own, 544. 
Crams and blasphemes, 198. 
Cranny, every, but the right, 370. 
Crannying wind, 471. 
Crape, saint in, 276. 
Cras amet, 259. 

Cream and mantle like a stand- 
ing pond, 35. 
Create a soul, 197. 
Created equal, all men, 376. 

half to rise, 272. 
Creation, false, 92. 

of some heart, 474. 

ploughshare, o'er, 266. 

sleeps, 261. 

tire of all, 537. 
Creation's dawn beheld, 476. 

heir, 342. 
Creator drew his spirit, 226. 

remember thy, 557. 
Creature drink but 1, 166. 

drink pretty, 401. 

every, shall be purified, 15. 

good familiar, 127. 

is at his dirty work, 286. 

smart so little as a fool, 286. 
Creatures, delicate, 128. 

millions of spiritual, 183. 

not too bright for daily food, 
404. 

of the elements, 196. 

you dissect, 276. 
Crebillon, romances of, 336. 
Credit his own lie, 17. 
Creditor, glory of a, 22. 



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Index. 



Credulity, ye who listen with, 320. 
Creed of slaves, 323. 

outworn, 410 

sapping a solemn, 472. 
Creeds agree, 354. 

half the, 523. 

keys of all the, 522. 
Creep in one dull line, 281. 

into his study, 28. 

wit that can, 287. 
Creepeth o'er ruins old, 538. 
Creeping like snail, 41. 

where no life is seen, 538. 
Creeps in this petty pace, 98. 
Crested fortune, 371. 
Cribbed confined, 94. 
Cricket on the hearth, 203. 
Cried razors up and down, 373. 
Crime, maddens to, 478. 

numbers sanctified the, 356. 

of being a young man, 322. 

worse than a, 394. 
Crimes committed in thy name, 

394- 

dignity of, 379. 

register of, 358. 

undivulged, 120. 
Crimson in thy lips, 81. 
Crispian, feast of, 64. 

name of, 64. 
Cristes lore and his apostles, 2. 
Critic, each day a, 283. 
Critical, nothing if not, 125. 
Criticising elves, 357. 
Critics, before you trust in, 466. 

criticise, 363. 
Critic's eye, 393. 
Cromwell damned to fame, 275. 

guiltless of his country's blood, 

333- 
Crony, drouthy, 385. 
Crook the pregnant hinges, 113. 
Crops the flowery food, 269. 
Cross, last at his, 495. 

on the bitter, 54. 

sparkling, she wore, 284. 
Crossed in love, 383. 

with adversity, 19. 
Crosses, fret thy soul with, 12. 

relics, crucifixes, 218. 
Crotchets in thy head, 21. 
Crow like chanticleer, 40. 

that flies, 135. 
Crowd, midst the, the hum, 469. 

not on my soul, 331. 

of common men, 160. 

we met — 't was in a, 502. 
Crowded hour of glorious life, 450. 
Crown, better than his, 37. 

emperor without his, 262. 



Crown, fruitless, upon my head, 94. 

head that wears a, 61. 

of glory, a hoary head is a, 554. 

of life, receive the, 577. 

of sorrow is remembering hap- 
pier things, 519. 

old winter's head, 163. 

ourselves with rosebuds, 566. 

sweet to wear a, 67. 
Crowning good, 380. 
Crown's disguise, 337. 
Crow-toe, tufted, 200. 
Crude surfeit reigns, 197. 
Cruel as death, 309. 

as the grave, 561. 

death is always near, 600. 

only to be kind, 116. 
Cruelty to load a falling man, 74. 
Crumbs, dogs eat of the, 568. 

picked up his, 609. 
Crusaders, think they are, 536. 
Crush of worlds, 251. 
Crust of bread and liberty, 288. 
Crutch, shouldered his, 348. 
Cry and no wool, 214. 

bubbling, 487. 

have a good, 508. 

Havock, 85. 

is still, They come, 98. 

no language but a, 523. 

not when his father dies, 322. 
Crying, Give give, 557. 
Cuckoo buds, 31. 
Cucumbers, sunbeams out of, 246. 
Cud of bitter fancy, 43. 
Cudgel, know by the blow, 216. 

thy brains no more, 117. 
Cummin and anise, 569. 
Cunning, right hand forget, 551. 

in fence, 48. 
Cup, inordinate, 127. 

kiss but in the, 144. 

life's enchanted, 470. 

of hot wine, 161. 

of water, little thing to give a, 

^ . 5 01 - . 

Cupid is painted blind, 32. 

kills with arrows, 27. 
Cupid's curse, 140. 
Cups, in their flowing, 64. 

pass swiftly round, 161. 

that cheer, 363. 
Cur of low degree, 349. 
Curded by the frost, 75. 
Cure for life's worst ills, 515. 

on exercise depend, 224. 

the dumps, 246. 
Curfew time, 196. 

tolls the knell, 332. 
Curious child, 423. 



Index. 



641 



Curled darlings, 123. 
Curls, ambrosial, 298. 
Current of a woman's will, 260. 

of domestic joy, 319. 

of the soul, 333. 
Curs mouth a bone, 359. 
Curse on all laws, 293. 

primal eldest, 114. 
Curses dark, rigged with, 200. 

not loud but deep, 97. 
Curst be the verse, 287. 

by heaven's decree, 347. 

hard reading, 3S4. 

spot is, 405. 
Curtain, Priam's, 60. 
Curtains, fringed, of thine eve, 18. 

let fall the, 363. 
Curule chair, 337. 
Cushion and soft dean, 279. 
Custom alwavs in the afternoon, 
106. 

honoured in the breach, 104. 

of Branksome Hall, 444. 

stale her infinite variety, 131. 

tyrant. 125. 
'Custom'd hill, missed him on the, 

334- 
Customs and its businesses, 370. 
Cut him in little stars, 79. 

is the branch, 16. 

most unkindest, 86. 
Cutpurse of the empire, 115. 
Cycle and epicycle, 187. 

of Cathay. 520. 
Cynosure of neighbouring eyes, 

20 1. 
Cynthia of this minute, 277. 
Cvpress and mvrtle, land of the, 

47S. 
Cytherea s breath, 48. 

Dacian mother, 475. 
Daffed the world, 5S. 
Daffodils before the swallow, 48. 

fair, we weep to see, 159. 
Dagger I see before me, 92. 

of the mind, 92. 

smiles at the drawn, 251. 
Daggers, speak, 114. 
Daggers-drawing, 216. 
Daily beauty in his life, 130. 
Daintie flowre orherbe, 10. 
Daintier sense, 117. 
Dainties bred in a book, 30. 
Daisie the eye of the day, 5. 
Daisies, myriads of, 416. 

pied, 31, 201. 

that men calien, 5. 
Daisy by the shadow, 420. 
Dale, haunts in, 436. 



Dale, hawthorne in the, 201. 

Dales and fields, 15. 

Dallies with the innocence of love, 

47- 
Dalliance, primrose path of, 103. 
Dally with wrong, 432. 
Dam the waters of the Nile, 516. 
Dame of Ephesus, 248. 

sulky, sullen, 385. 
Dames, gentle, it gars me greet, 

385-. 

of ancient days, 343. 
Damiata and Mount Casius, 176. 
Damn with faint praise, 2S6. 
Damnable iteration, 54. 

woman. 236. 
Damnation, distilled, 396. 

of his taking off, 90. 

round the land, 295. 

wet, 145. 
Damned be him who first cries, 
Hold, 99. 

better be, 373. 

see him, ere I would, 48. 

to fame, 275, 291. 
Damp my intended wing, 1S9. 
Damsel lay deploring, 301. 

with a dulcimer, 434. 
Dan Chaucer, 11. 
Dan Cupid giant-dwarf, 30. 
Dan to Beersheba, 326. 
Dance and jollity, 194. 

attendance, 74. 

on with the, 471. 

when you do, 48. 
Dances in the wind, 227. 

midnight, 296. 

such a way, 157. 
Dancing days, past our, 77. 

drinking time, 226. 

in the chequer d shade, 201. 
Danger on the deep, 502. 

out of this nettle, 56. 
Dangerous, delays are, 22^. 

to be of no church, 320. 
Dangers, loved me for the, 125. . 

make us scorn, 385. 

of the seas, 156. 
Danger's troubled night, 441. 
Daniel come to judgment, 37. 
Dank and dropping weeds, 206. 
Dappled turf, 403. 
Dare do all becomes a man, 91. 

not die, 503. 

stir abroad, 100. 

the elements to strife, 480. 

to be true, 155. 

what man, I dare, 95. 

what men, do, 27. 
Dares think one thing, 298. 

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642 



Index. 



Darien, silent upon a peak in, 499. 

Daring dined, 292. 

Daring in full dress, 485. 

Dark amid the blaze of noon, 193. 

and doubtful from the, 384. 

and lonely hiding-place, 432. 

as Erebus, 38. 

as pitch, 604. 

blue sea, 480. 

ever-during, 179. 

eye in woman, 472. 

illumine what in me is, 170. 

leap into the, 6. 

sun to me is, 193. 

with excessive bright, 181. 
Darkeneth counsel by words, 545. 
Darkly, deeply beautifully, 489. 
Darkness and the worm, 264. 

buries all, 293. 

Cimmerian, 440. 

dawn on our, 460. 

instruments of, 88. 

jaws of, 32. 

land of, 541. 

not in utter, 544. 

prince of, 121, 157. 

raven down of, 195. 

up to God, 523. 

visible, 170. 

which may be felt, 541. 
Darling sin, 432. 
Darlings, wealthy curled, 123. 
Dart, death his, 190. 

like the poisoning of a, 167. 

shook a dreadful, 177. 

time shall throw a, 145. 
Dashed the dew, 448. 
Daughter, harping on my, 108. 

of his voice, 189. 

of my house, 470. 

of the voice of God, 419. 

old man's, 123. 
Daughters of my father's house, 47. 
David, hating, 222. 
Daw, wiser than a, 65. 
Dawn, belong not to. the, 185. 

cheerful, 404. 

exhalations of the, 436. 

is overcast, 250. 

later star of, 403. 

on our darkness, 460. 
Dawning, bird of, 100. 

of morn, 442. 
Daws to peck at, 123. 
Day, as it fell upon a, 134, 143. 

brought back my night, 206. 

burden and heat of the, 568. 

business of the, 224. 

close of the, 359. 

count that, lost, 601. 



Day, critic on the last, 283. 
dearly love but one, 244. 
deceased, 262. 
dog will have his, 119. 
ended with the, 512. 
ere the first, of death, 477. 
eye of, 205. 
great important, 250. 
hand open as, 62. 
harmless, entertains the, 141. 
he that outlives this, 64. 
I 've lost a, 262. 
in June, what so rare as a, 539. 
in thy courts, 549. 
is done, and the darkness falls, 

joint labourer with the, 100. 

light of common, 421. 

may bring forth, 556. 

merry as the, 26. 

merry heart goes all the, 48. 

morning shows the, 192. 

night follows the, 192. 

not to me returns, 179. 

now 's the, 38S. 

of adversity. 558. 

of nothingness, 477. 

of prosperity, 558. 

of woe, 426. 

parting, linger and play, 463. 

peep of, 159. 

posteriors of this, 31. 

so calm, so cool, 155. 

stands tiptoe, 80. 

suffering ended with the, 512. 

sufficient unto the, 567. 

that comes betwixt a Saturday 
and Monday, 244. 

that is dead, 520. 

the great the important, 250. 

through the roughest, 89. 

unto day uttereth speech, 547. 
Daylight and truth, 208. 

we burn, 20. 
Day-star, so sinks the, 200. 
Days, afternoon of her best, 70. 

among the dead, 428. 

and nights to Addison, 320. 

are as grass, 550. 

are dwindled, 372. 

are in the yellow leaf, 485. 

are swifter than a shuttle, 544, 

begin with trouble, 600. 

boyish, 124. 

degenerate, 298. 

fallen on evil, 186. 

flight of future, 175. 

live laborious, 199. 

measure of my, 547. 

melancholy, are come, 514. 



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643 



Days of childhood, 429. 

o' lang syne, 388. 

of my distracting grief, 341. 

of nature, 106. 

of our years are threescore 
years and ten, 549. 

one of those heavenly, 404. 

past our dancing, j-j. 

perfect, if ever come, 539. 

race of other, 526. 

salad, 131. 

sweet childish, 402. 

that are no more, 521. 

that need borrow, 163. 

to lose good, 12. 

with God he passed the, 259. 

world of happy, 69. 
Day's march nearer home, 438. 
Daze the world, 515. 
Dazzle as they fade, 450. 
Dazzles to blind, 359. 
Dazzling fence of rhetoric, 198. 
Dead, bent him o'er the, 477. 

better be with the, 94. 

day that is, 520. 

days among the, 428. 

fading honours of the, 444. 

flies a stinking savour, 559. 

for a ducat, 115. 

he mourns the, 262. 

in his harness, 566. 

men's bones, 569. 

men's skulls, 69. 

not, but gone before, 399. 

of midnight, 378. 

of the night, 102. 

past bury its dead, 530. 

sheeted, did squeak, 100. 

would I were, 503. 
Deadly fair, so coldly sweet, 477. 
Deaf adder, 548 
Deal damnation round, 295. 
Dear as remembered kisses, 521. 

as the light that visits, 331. 

as the ruddy drops, 331. 

as the vital warmth, 236, 331. 

as these eyes that weep, 236. 

beauteous death, 211. 

charmer away, 301. 

five hundred friends, 362. 

for his whistle, 316. 

hut our home, 315. 

son of memory, 204. 
Dearer than his horse, 518. 

than self, 469. 
Dearest thing he owed, 89. 
Dearly let or let alone, 154. 
Death, all of, to die, 437. 

and his brother Sleep, 493. 

and life, 251. 



Death, back resounded, 178. 
be thou faithful unto, 578. 
borders upon our birth, 146. 
by slanderous tongues, 28. 
calls ye, 160. 

came with friendly care, 434. 
can this be, 295. 
certain to all, 61. 
cold ear of, 333. 
cometh soon or late, 511. 
covenant with, 563. 
coward sneaks to, 300. 
cruel as, 309. 
dear beauteous, 211. 
dread of something after, in. 
ere thou hast slain, 145. 
fell sergeant, 119. 
first day of, 477. 
grim, 146. 

grinned horrible, 178. 
hearsed in, 105. 
herald after my, 74. 
in the midst of life we are in, 
. 53o. 

in the pot, 543. 
into the world, 170. 
intrenched, 265. 
just and mightie, 13. 
kisses after, 521. 
lays his icy hands, 160. 
love strong as, 561. 
lovely in, 263. 
loves a shining mark, 265. 
makes equal, 140. 
most in apprehension, 24. 
not divided in, 542. 
nothing but birth, 265. 
nothing our own but, 53. 
of each day's life, 93. 
rides in every breeze, 460. 
ruling passion strong in, 277. 
shades of, 177. 
shadow of, 544. 
shook his dart, 190. 
sights of ugly, 69. 
slavery or, 250. 
sleep of, what dreams may 

come in that, no. 
so noble, 194. 
soul under the ribs of, 197. 
studied in his, 89. 
there is no, 533. 
thou hast all seasons, 496. 
to us, play to you, 232. 
untimely stopp'd, 296. 
urges knells call, 262. 
us do part, 579. 
valiant taste but once of, 84. 
wages of sin is, 572. 
way to dusty, 98. 



644 



Index, 



Death, whatshoulditknowof? 401. 

what we fear of, 24. 

where is thy sting ? 295, 574. 

which nature never made, 264. 

whose portal we call, 533. 

wonderful is, 493. 
Death-bed is a detector, 263. 
Death-beds, ask, 262. 
Death's pale flag, 81. 
Debt, a double, to pay, 346. 

to nature, 154. 
Debtor to his profession, 137. 
Debts, he that dies pays all, 18. 
Decalogue, men who can hear 

the, 420. 
Decay, gradations of, 319. 

muddy vesture of, 38. 

unperceiv'd, 317. 
Decays and glimmerings, 211. 
Decay's effacing fingers, 477. 
Deceit in gorgeous palace, 79. 
Deceitful shine, 458. 

woman, 236. 
Deceivers, men were, ever, 26. 
December, roses in, 466. 

when men wed, 43. 
Decencies, content to dwell in, 
277. 

that daily flow, 1S8. 
Decency, right meet of, 327. 
Decent limbs composed, 296. 
Decently and in order, 574. 
Decide, who shall, 278. 
Decider of dusty titles, 150. 
Decision, valley of, 565. 
Declined into the vale of years, 

128. 
Dedes, gentil, 3. 
Dedicate his beauty, 76. 
Dedicated to closeness, 17. 
Deed, attempt and not the, 92. 

dignified by the doer, 45. 

go with it, unless the, 96. 

of dreadful note, 94. 

so shines a good, 38. 

without a name, 96. 
Deeds are men, 156, 320. 

are the sons of heaven, 320. 

blessings wait on virtuous, 256. 

devilish, excused, 182. 

foul, will rise, 103. 

live in, 516. 

means to do ill, 15. 

not words, 604. 
Deep and gloomy wood, 406. 

as a well, 79. 

as first love, 521. 

bottom of the, 55. 

calleth unto deep, 548. 

damnationof his taking off, 90. 



Deep, danger on the, 502. 

embosomed in the, 343. 

for his hearers, 347. 

home is on the, 441. 

in the lowest, 181. 

malice to conceal, 181. 

on his front engraven, 175. 

sleep falleth on men, 543. 

spirits from the vasty, 57- 

tipple in the, 161. 

versed in books, 192. 

yet clear, 164. 
Deeper than all speech, 526. 

than plummet, 18. 
Deep-mouthed welcome, 486. 
Deer a shade, 440. 

let the strucken, 114. 

mice and such small, 121. 
Defamed by every charlatan, 524. 
Defect, cause of this, 108. 

fine by, 277. 
Defective comes by cause, 108. 
Defence, admit of no, 232. 

against injury, 8. 

millions for, 393. 
Defend me from my friends, 595. 

your departed friend, 226. 
Defer, madness to, 261. 

till to-morrow, 256. 
Defiance in their eye, 343. 
Deficiencies of the present day, 

320. 
Deformed unfinished, 68. 
Degenerate days, 298. 
Degree, all in the, 273. 

curs of low, 349. 

of woe, bliss must gain by, 324. 
Degrees, fine by, 242. 

grows up by, 149. 

ill habits gather by, 227. 

of kin, 218. 

scorning the base, 83. 
Deified by our own spirits, 405. 
Deity offended, 387. 
Dejection do we sink as low, 405. 
Delay, amorous, 182. 

each dull, 345. 

law's, in. 
Delays are dangerous, 229. 

have dangerous er.ds, 229. 
Deliberates, woman that, 251. 
Deliberation sat, 175. 
Delicate creatures, call these, ours, 

128. 
Delicious land, done for this, 468. 
Delight and dole, 100. 

by heavenly rays, 419. 

enjoy with liberty, 11. 

ever new, 184. 

in love, 256. 



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645 



Delight in misfortunes of others, 
210. 

into a sacrifice, 155. 

lap me in, 526. 

mounted in, 405. 

over-payment of, 426. 

paint the meadows with, 31. 

phantom of, 404. 

she 's my. 234. 

to pass away the time, 63. 
Delightful task, 30S. 
Delights, all you vain, 148. 

that witchingly instil, 310. 

to scorn, 199. 
Delphian vales, the, 529. 
Delphos, steep of, 204. 
Demd damp moist body, 538. 

horrid grind, 538. 
Demi-paradis,e, 52. 
Democratic, fierce, 192. 
Democrats, d — d. 490. 
Democritus would not %veep, 415. 
Demosthenes, fall below, 393. 
Den, beard the lion in his, 311. 
Denied, who comes to be, 146. 
Denizen, world's tired, 469. 
Denmark, may be so in, 107. 

rotten in, 105. 
Deny, heart would fain, 97. 
Depart, loth to, 241. 
Deplore thee, we will not, 460. 
Depressed with care, 301. 
Depth and not the tumult, 407. 

in philosophy, 136. 

in whose calm, 501. 
Depths and shoals of honour, 72. 
Derby dilly, 398. 
Descant amorous, 182. 
Descends the unguarded store, 

276. 
Descent and fall, adverse, 174. 

claims of long, 517. 
Describe the undescribable, 474. 
Description, beggared all, 131. 
Desdemona would seriously in- 
cline, 124. 
Desert blossom as the rose, 563. 

fountain in the, 481. 

my dwelling-place, 475. 

of a thousand lines, 289. 

of the mind, 477. 

use every man after his, 109. 

wildernesses, 195. 
Deserted at his utmost need, 220. 
Deserts, his, are small, 169. 

idle and antres vast, 124. 
Deserve the precious bane. 173. 
Desire, bloom of young, 329. 

kindle soft, 221. 

of the moth for the star, 495. 



Desire, this fond, 251. 

who lives as they, 262. 
Desires of the mind, 138. 
Desk's dead wood, 429. 
Desolate, no one so utterly, 531. 

none are so, 469. 
Despair, black, 493. 

depth of some divine, 521. 

fiercer by, 174. 

flat, or final hope is, 174. 

hurried question of, 479. 

infinite, and wrath, 181. 

message of, 440. 

nympholepsy of some fond, 

474-. 

of getting out, 162. 

that slumbered, 180. 

wasting in, 151. 
Despairing, sweeter for ihee, 390. 
Despatch, well spelt in the, 490. 
Despatchful looks, 185. 
Desperate steps, 370. 
Despised. I like to be, 358. 
Despond, slough of, 231. 
Despondency and madness, 405. 
Destined page, torn from their, 

395- 
Destiny, leaves of, 163. 
Destroy his fib, 286. 
Destroyed by thought, 357. 
Destruction, pride goeth before, 
554- 

that wasteth at noonday, 550. 
Destructive woman, 236. 
Desultory man, 236. 
Detector of the heart, 263. 
Detest the offence, 293. 
Detraction at your heels, 47. 

will not suffer it, 59. 
Device nor work, 559. 
Devil a monk was he, 6. 

as a roaring lion, 578. 

builds a chapel, 156. 240, 608. 

can cite Scripture, 35. 

did grin, 432. 

eat with the, 606. 

give the, his due, 54. 

go, poor, 326. 

hath power to assume, no. 

how the, they got there, 286. 

hunting for one fair female, 
22 5- 

I play the, 69. 

in all his quiver, 491. 

laughing, in his sneer, 480. 

let us call thee, 127. 

must go that the, drives, 45, 
606. 

of all that dread the, 403. 

resist the, 577. 



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Index. 



Devil sends cooks, 605. 

take the hindmost, 604. 

tell truth and shame the, 57. 

to serve the, 501. 

wears black, 113 

with devil damned, 176. 
Devise wit I write pen, 29. 
Devotion, ignorance mother of, 
228. 

to something afar, 495. 
Devotion's visage, no. 
Devour, seeking whom he may, 

^ 575. 

Devoutly to be wished, no. 

Dew, chaste as morning, 264. 

glistening with, 183. 

like a silent, 159. 

of sleep, 183. 

of thy birth, n. 

of youth, 103. 

on his thin robe, 441. 

on the mountain, 448. 

resolve itself into a, 101. 

upon a thought falling, 4S8. 

walks o'er the, 101. 

wombe of morning, n. 

young diamonds in infant, 228. 
Dew-drop from the lion's mane, 

74- 
Dews, brushing away the, 334. 

mother of, 308. 

of the evening, 306. 
Diadem of snow, 483. 

precious, 115. 
Dial from his poke, 40. 

to the sun, 218, 268. 
Diamond, great rough, 306. 

me no diamonds, 614. 
Diamonds, bright as young, 228. 

cut diamonds, 604. 
Dian's temple, 75. 
Diana's foresters, 54. 
Diapason closing full in Man, 227. 
Dice were human bones, 485. 
Dicers' oaths, 115. 
Dickens, what the, 21. 
Dictynna good-man Dull, 30. 
Die a bachelor, 26. 

an American, 464. 

and endow a college, 278. 

and go we know not vs here, 24. 

at the top like that tree, 247. 

because a woman 's fair, 157. 

before I wake, 600. 

dare to, or bear to live, 274. 

hazard of the, 71. 

here in a rage, 247. 

in a great cause, 485. 

in an inn, 327. 

in the last ditch, 590. 



Die in yon rich sky, 520, 

is gain, 575. 

is landing on some silent 
shore, 244. 

let us do or, 388, 603. 

nature broke the, 482. 

not born to, 528. 

not willingly let it, 206. 

of a rose, 270. 

taught us how to, 300. 

who tell us Love can, 426. 

with harness on, 99. 

without or this or that, 276. 

young, whom the gods love, 
. .489- 
Died in freedom's cause, 428. 
Dies and makes no sign, 66. 

like the dolphin, 473. 
Diet, sober in your, 303. 
Difference to me, 402. 
Different, like — but oh ! how, 407. 
Difficulties, knowledge undei , 504. 
Difficulty and labour, 179. 
Diffused knowledge, 395. 
Digest, inwardly, 579. 

of anarchy, 352. 
Digestion bred, 184. 

wait on appetite, 95. 
Diggeth a pit, whoso, 556. 
Dignified by the doer's deed, 45. 
Dignifies humanity, 515. 
Dignity, in every gesture, 187. 

of crimes, 379. 
Diligent in his business, 555. 
Dim and perilous way, 423. 

eclipse, 172. 

religious light, 203. 

the sweet look, 531. 

with childish tears, 418. 

with the mist of years, 469. 
Diminished heads, hide their, 180. 
Dimmed and gone, 457. 
Dine, that jurymen may, 284. 
Dining, thought of, 347. 
Dinner lubricates business, 377. 

of herbs, better is a, 553. 
Dire was the noise of conflict, 186. 
Directs the storm, 252. 
Direful spring of war, 298. 
Dirge in marriage, 101. 
Dirt, loss of, 140. 
Disappointed unanel'd, 107. 
Disastrous chances, 124. 

twilight, 172. 
Discharge in that war, 559. 
Disciplined in action, 395. 
Discontent, nights in pensive, 12. 

winter of our, 68. 
Discord, horrible, 186. 
Discords, harsh, 80. 



Index. 



647 



Discords sting through Burns and 

Moore, 536. 
Discourse, bid me, 134. 

more sweet, 176. 

most eloquent music, 114. 

of reason, 102. 

of the elders, 565. 

such large, 116. 

voluble in, 30. 
Discreetest best, 18S. 
Discreetly blot, 169. 
Discretion better part of valour, 59. 
Disease, young, 272. 
Diseased nature, 57. 
Diseases desperate grown, 116. 
Disguise, scandal in, 290. 
Disguises which we wear, 183. 
Dish, butter in a lordly, 541. 
Dishonourable graves, 82. 
Disinheriting countenance, 383. 
Dislimn the rack, 132. 
Dismal treatise rouse, 98 

tidings, convey'd the, 346. 
Dismissing the doctor, 392. 
Disobedience manifest, 170. 
Disorder, most admired, 95. 

in the dress, 159. 
Dispensations and gifts, 215. 
Displaced the mirth, 95. 
Disposer of other men's stuff, 141. 
Disposition, shake our, 105. 
Dispraise or blame, 194. 

other men's, 164. 
Dispraised, to be, no small praise, 

191. 
Dispraises, comfortlesse, 12. 
Dispute, could we forbear, 169. 
Disputing, itch of, 142. 
Disrespect, luxury of, 420. 
Dissect, creatures you, 276. 
Dissemble your love, 391. 
Dissension between hearts, 453. 
Dissevering power, 198. 
Dissonance, barbarous, 197. 
Distance lends enchantment, 439. 

made more sweet, 339. 
Distant spires, 328. 

Trojans, 298. 
Distemper, of no, 229. 
Distilled damnation, 396. 
Distinction between virtue and 

vice, 321. 
Distinguish and divide, 212. 
Distraction, waft me from, 472. 
Distressed, griefs that harass the, 

. 3i8. 

in mind body or estate, 578. 
Distressful bread, 64. 

stroke, 124. 
Distrest by poverty, 319. 



Ditch, die in the last, 590. 
Ditto to Mr. Burke, 352. 
Divide, distinguish and, 212. 
Divided duty, 125. 
Dividends, incarnation of fat, 526. 
Dividing we fall, 374. 
Divine, all save the spirit of man 
is, 479. 

enchanting ravishment, 195. 

human face, 179. 

in hookas, 485. 

makes drudgery, 155. 

philosophy, 522. 

to love, 499. 

woman may be made, 408. 
Divineness, participation of, 138. 
Diviner air, 408. 
Divinity doth hedge a king, 117. 

in odd numbers, 21. 

that shapes our ends, 119. 

that stirs within us, 2.51. 
Division of a battle, 123. 
Do good by stealth, 288. 

well and right, 156. 

what I pleased, 8. 

what I will with mine own, 
568. 
Dock the tail of Rhyme, 536. 
Doctor, after death the, 156. 

dismissing the, 392. 

Fell, I do not love ihee, 240. 

shook his head, 302. 
Doctors disagree, who shall decide 

when, 278. 
Doctrine from women's eyes, 31. 

not for the, some to church re- 
pair, 281. 

orthodox, prove their, 213. 

sanctified by truth, 415. 
Doctrines clear, what makes, 218. 
Does well acts nobly, 262. 
Doff it for shame, 50. 
Dog and bay the moon, 87. 

bark when I ope my lips, 35. 

hunts in dreams like a, 518. 

is thy servant a, 543. 

is turned to his vomit, 57S. 

it was that died, 349. 

living, better than a dead lion, 

559- 
mine enemy's, 112. 
shall bear him company, 270. 
smarts for what that dog has 

done, 314. 
something better than his, 518. 
to gain his private ends, 349. 
whose, are you, 294. 
will have his day, 119. 
word to throw at a, 39. 
Dogs bark at me, 68. 



648 



Index. 



Dogs, between two, 65. 

delight to bark and bite, 254. 

eat of the crumbs, 568. 

fighting in the streets, 68. 

little, and all, 121. 

of war, let slip the, 85. 

throw physic to the, 98. 
Doing or suffering, 171. 
Doit, beggarly last, 364. 
Dole, delight and, 101. 
Doleful sound, 255. 
Dolphin, dies like the, 473. 
Dome, him of the western, 223. 

of many-coloured glass, 494. 

of thought, 469. 
Domestic happiness, 362. 

joy, smooth current of, 319. 
Dominations princedoms, 1S5. 
Dominions, the sun never sets in 

my, 464. 
Done quickly, it were, 90. 

todeathbyslanderoustongues, 
28. 

we may compute what 's, 386. 

what 's, is done, 94. 

with so much care, 221. 
Doom, the crack of, 96. 

had an early, 509. 

regardless of their, 328. 
Doomed for a certain term, 106. 

to go in company, 419. 
Door, at mine hostess', 49. 

clicked behind the, 346. 

shall we shut the, 313. 

shut shut the, 285. 

sweetest thing beside a hu- 
man, 401. 
Doorkeeper, rather be a, 549. 
Doors, infernal, 178. 
Dorian mood of flutes, 172. 
Dost thou love life? 316. 
Dotage, streams of, 317. 
Dotes yet doubts, 128. 
Doting with age, pyramids, 209. 
Double debt to pay, 346. 

double toil and trouble, 96. 
Doubling his pleasures, 399. 
Doubly dying, 445. 

feel ourselves alone, 446. 
Doubt I love, but never, 108. 

never stand to, 160. 

once in, to be, 108. 

that the sun doth move, 168. 

the equivocation, 99. 

thou the stars are fire, 108. 

to hang a, 129. 

truth to be a liar, 108. 
Doubts are traitors, 22. 

saucy, 94. 
Dough, my cake is, 44. 



Douglas conquer, 341. 

in his hall, 447. 
Dove, burnished, 518. 

found no rest, 540. 

gently as any sucking, 32. 

more of the serpent than, 16. 

springs of, 402. 

wings like a, 548. 
Dove-cote, eagle in a, 75. 
Doves, harmless as, 567. 

moan of, 521. 
Dowagers for deans, 520. 
Down among the dead men, 325. 

bed of, 125. 

he that is, 215, 231. 

I grant you I was, 59. 

on your knees, 42. 

thou climbing sorrow, 120. 

to a sunless sea, 434. 

to the dust with them, 458. 
Downcast modesty, 309. 
Downs, all in the, 302. 

unhabitable, 245. 
Doxy, another man's, 595. 
Drachenfels, crag of, 471. 
Drag the slow barge, 371. 
Dragon, evening, 194. 

St. George that swinged the, 
49. 
Drags at each remove, 342. 

its slow length, 282. 
Drained by fevered lips, 501. 
Drama, shall close the, 257. 
Drank delight, 384. 

judicious, 292. 
Drapery of his couch, 513. 
Draught, nauseous, 224. 
Draughts, shallow, 280. 
Draw men as they ought to be, 347. 
Drawers, chest of, 346. 
Draws us with a single hair, 227, 

284. 
Dread and fear of kings, 37. 

of all who wrong, 525. 

of something after death, in. 

the Devil, 403. 

whence this secret, 251. 
Dreadful reckoning, 301. 

urs, 536. 
Dream, a phantasma or a hideous, 

8 3-. 
all night without a stir, 498. 
consecration and the Poet's, 

420. 
dreams, old men shall, 565. 
forgotten, 406. 
life is. but an empty, 530. 
love's young, 455. 
of peace, 492. 
of things that were, 469. 



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649 



Dream old men's, 222. 

sight to, 431. 

silently as a, 460. 

spirit of my, 482. 

when one awaketh, 549. 

which was not all a dream, 4S3. 
Dreaming ear, 442. 
Dreams at length deceive, 241. 

babbling, 249. 

books are each a world of, 418. 

full of fearful, 69. 

hunts in, 518. 

in brighter, 211. 

pleasant, lies down to, 513. 

pleasing, and slumbers light, 

447- 

smooth and idle, 208. 

such stuff as, are made of, 18. 

that wave, 310. 

true I talk of, 77. 
Dreamt of in your philosophy, 107. 
Dreary intercourse ofclaily life, 407. 

sea now flows between, 432. 
Dregs of life, 229. 
Dress, be plain in, 303. 

disorder in the, 159. 

of thoughts, 306. 
Drest, still to be, 144. 
Drink and to be merry, 559. 

deep or taste not, 280. 

every creature, but I, 166. 

for the thirsty, 9. 

gapes for, again, 166. 

no longer water, 576. 

no more than a sponge, 6. 

pretty creature, 401. 

they never taste who always, 
243- 

to me only, 144. 

to the lass, 383. 

why men, 235. 

with him that wears a hood, 9. 

ye to her, 443. 
Drinking largely sobers us, 280. 
Drinks and gapes, 166. 
Drip of the suspended oar, 472. 
Driveller and a show, 317. 
Drives fat oxen, 322. 
Driving of Jehu, 543. 
Drooped the willow, 512. 
Drop a tear and bid adieu, 312. 

in for an after-loss, 135. 

in the well, 483. 

into thy mother's lap, 191. 

of a bucket, 563. 

of allaying Tyber, 161. 
Dropping buckets into wells, 362. 

continual, 557. 
Dropped from an angel's wing, 
416. 

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Dropped manna, 174. 

Drops from off the eaves, 203. 

his blue-fringed lids, 432, 

like kindred, 361. 

precious, 228. 

ruddy, 84. 
Dropt from the zenith, 173. 
Droughte of March, 1. 
Drown a fly, 261. 

pain it was to, 69. 
Drowned honour, pluck up, 55. 
Drowsiness shall clothe a man in 

rags, 555. 
Drowsy syrups of the world, 128. 
Drowsyhed, land of, 310. 
Drudgery at the desk, 429. 

makes, divine. 155. 
Druid lies in yonder grave, 340. 
Drum ecclesiastick, 212. 

spirit-stirring, 129. 

was heard, not a, 499. 
Drum -beat, morning, 463. 
Drums, beat the, 237. 
Drunk, gloriously, 364. 

hasten to be, 224. 

pleasure to be, 314. 
Drunkard clasp his teeth, 145. 
Drunken man, stagger like a, 550. 
Dairy's, happy boy at, 509. 
Dry as summer dust, 422. 

as the remainder biscuit, 40. 

sun dry wind, 7. 

tree, done in the, 571. 
Drying up a single tear, 490. 
Ducat, dead for a, 115. 
Due season, word in, 554. 
Dues, render to all their, 573. 
Dukedom, my library was, 17. 
Dulcimer, damsel with a, 434. 
Dull cold marble, 72. 

good-man, 30. 

tame shore, 503. 
Duller than the fat weed on Lethe 

wharf, 106. 
Dulness, gentle, loves a joke, 291. 
Dum vivimus vivamus, 315. 
Dumb, beggar that is, 13. 

forgetfulness, 334. 

modest men are, 392. 

oracles are, 304. 
Dumps, cure the, 246. 
Dumpy woman, I hate a, 486. 
Duncan, hear it not, 92. 

is in his grave, 94. 
Dunce sent to roam, 366. 

with wits, 292, 367. 
Dundee, single hour of that, 412. 
Dunsinane, come to, 99. 
Dupe gamester and poet, 338. 
Durance vile, 387. 



650 



Index. 



Dusk faces, 192. 

Dusky race, rear my, 519. 

Dust, blossom in the, 160. 

down to the, with them, 458. 

dry as summer, 422. 

enemies shall lick the, 549. 

heap of, alone remains of 
thee, 296. 

lay it in the, 470. 

learned, 362. 

of the balance, 563. 

pride that licks the, 287. 

provoke the silent, 333. 

return to the earth, 560. 

sleeps in, 160, 5S0. 

that is a little gilt, 74. 

the knight's bones are, 434. 

thou art and unto dust shalt 
thou return, 540. 

to dust, 580. 

vile, whence he sprung, 446. 
"Duste, write it in, 73. 
Duties, men who know their, 380. 

primal, shine aloft, 425. 
Duty, a divided, 125. 

in that state of life, 579. 

I 've done my, 314. 

of man, whole, 561. 

service sweat for, 40. 

subject's, is the king's. 64. 

such as the subject owes, 44. 
Dwarf on a giant's shoulders, 437. 
Dwell in decencies forever, 277. 
Dwelling-place, desert my, 475. 
Dwelt all that 's good, 168. 
Dwindled to the shortest span, 

372. 
Dyer's hand, like the, 135. 
Dying eyes were closed, 296. 

eyes, unto, 521. 

man to dying men, 231. 

to-morrow will be, 158. 

when she slept, 506. 

Each in his narrow cell, 332. 
Eager flight, an, 81. 

for the fray, 249. 

heart the kindlier hand, 524. 
Eagle he was lord, 411. 

in a dove-cote, 75. 

like a young, 467. 

mewing her mighty youth, 
208. 

so the struck, 467. 
Eagle's fate and mine are one, 167. 
Eagles be gathered together, 569. 

dare not perch, 283. 
Ear, applying to his, 423. 

enchant thine, 134. 

give every man thine, 104. 



Ear heard me, 545. 

hearing of the, 546. 

I was ail, 197. 

jewel in an Ethiop's, 77. 

more is meant than meets the 
203. 

of a drowsy man. 50. 

of Death, 333. 

of Eve, 183. 

of him that hears it, 31. 

the night's dull, 64. 

word of promise to our, 99. 

wrong sow by the, 610. 
Eare it heard, one, 4. 
Earliest at his grave, 495. 

light of the morning, 463. 
Early and provident fear, 355. 

bright transient chaste, 264. 

death, heaven gives its favour- 
ites, 474. 

gods, utterance of the, 498. 
Ear-piercing fife, 129. 
Ears, aged, play truant, 30. 

attending, 78. 

he that hath, to hear, 570. 

in mine ancient, 79. 

lend me your, 85. 

nailed by the, 217. 

noise of water in mine, 69. 

of corn, 246. 

of flesh and blood, 106. 

of the groundling, 112. 

polite, 279. 

ravished, 220. 

same sound is in my, 418. 

she gave me, 401. 

took captive, 45. 
Earth a hell, 468. 

a stage, 164. 

ancients of the, 138, 520. 

any spot of, 424. 

bears a plant, 443. 

best of men that e'er wore, 
165. 

bleeding piece of, 85. 

bowels of the harmless, 55. 

bridal of the, 155. 

felt the wound, 189. 

first flower of the, 456. 

forgot and heaven around us, 
456. 

fragrant the fertile, 183. 

giants in the, 540. 

girdle round about the, 33. 

give him a little, 73. 

glory passed from the, 421. 

growth of mother, 409. 

has no sorrow, 458. 

hath bubbles, 88. 

heaven on, 181. 



Index. 



6;i 



Earth, heaven tries the, 539 
inhabitants of the, 88. 
insensible, 190. 
is a thief, 81. 
kindly fruits of the, 579. 
lap of, 335. 
lards the lean, 55. 
lay her in the, 11 8. 
less of, 448. 

lift our low desire from, 478. 
made so various, 360. 
man masters the, 476. 
model of the barren, 53. 
naught beyond, O, 496. 
nought so vile that on the, 78. 
of majesty, 52. 
of the, earthy, 574. 
on the bare, 220. 
o'erwhelm thee, 103. 
passing from the, 420. 
peace good will on, 570. 
pleasant country's, 53. 
poetry of, is never dead, 499. 
proudly wears the Parthenon, 

5*7- 

salt of the, 566. 

so much of, 405. 

soaks up the rain, 166. 

sovereign'st thing on, 55. 

sure and hrm-set, 92. 

to earth, 577. 

truth crushed to, 514. 

turf of fresh, 210. 

vanities of, 414. 

walk the, 1S3. 

way of all the, 541. 

which men call, 194. 

with her thousand voices, 433. 

with orient pearl, 1S4. 
Earth's base built on stubble, 197. 

bitter leaven, 411. 

noblest thing, 539. 
Earthlier happy, 32. 
Earthly god-fathers, 29. 

happier, 32. 

hope and heavenly hope, 461. 

power show likest God's, t>7- 
Earthquake and eclipse, 493. 
Ease, age of, 344. 

and alternate labour, 308. 

for aye to dwell, 517. 

gentlemen who wrote with, 
289. 

in mine inn, 57. 

in writing, 282. 

of heart, 384. 

studious of, 253. 

with grace, 310. 

write with, to show your breed- 
ing, 384- 



Eased the putting off, 183. 
Easiest, move, who have learned 

to dance, 282. 
East, golden window of the, 76. 

gorgeous, with richest hand, 
i73- 
Easter-day, sun upon an, 157. 
Easy as lying, 114. 

to be true, 234. 

writing curst hard reading, 

384-. 
Eat and drink, let us, 562. 

drink and be merry, 570. 

I cannot, but little meat, 9. 

thy cake and have it, 156. 

with the devil. 6o5. 
Eaten me out of house and home, 
60. 

sour grapes, 564. 
Eating, appetite comes with, 6. 
Eating-time, worn out with, 229. 
Eaves, from off the, 203. 
Ebony, image of God in, 209. 
Ebrew Jew, 56. 
Eccentric and centric, 187. 
Echo answers Where, 479. 

applaud thee to the very, 98. 

of" the sad steps, 424. 

to the sense, 282. 
Echoes dying dying, 520. 

roll from soul to soul, 520. 
Echoing walks, 190. 
Eclipse, built in the, 200. 

dim, 172. 
Eclipsed the gayety of nations, 321. 
Ecstasy of love, 108. 

to lie in restless. 94. 

waked to, the living lyre, 333. 
Eden, this other, 52. 

through, took their solitary 
way, 191. 
Edge is sharper than the sword, 
i33- 

of appetite, 52. 

of battle, 171. 

of husbandry, dulls the, 104. 
Edged with poplar pale, 204. 
Edified, whoe'er was, 362. 
Education forms the common 
mind, 276. 

to love her was a liberal, 249. • 

virtuous and noble, 207. 
Educing good, from seeming evil, 

310. 
Edward, sons of, 70. 
Eel of science, 291. 
Effect, cause of this, 108. 
Eftsoones they heard, 11. 
Egeria ! sweet creature, 474. 
Egg, learned roast an, 290. 



652 



Index, 



Egregiously an ass, 126. 
Egypt, brow of, 34. 
Egypt's dark sea, 45S. 
Eld, palsied, 24. 
Elder days of Art, 534. 

let the woman take an, 46. 
Elders, discourse of the, 565. 
Electric chain, 473. 
Elegant but not ostentatious, 320. 

simplicity, 377. 

sufficiency, 308. 
Element, creatures of the, 196. 

lowering, scowls, 176. 

one law one, 524. 
Elements, become our, 175. 

dare the, to strife, 480. 

I tax not you, 120. 

so mixed in him, 87. 

war of, 251. 
Elephants endorsed with towers, 
191. 

for want of towers, 245. 
Elm, star-proof, 200. 
Elms, immemorial, 521. 
Eloquence, heavenly, 223. 

resistless, 192. 

the soul, 176. 

to woe, 480. 
Eloquent, old man, 205. 
Elves, criticising, 357. 

whose little eyes, 158. 
Elysium, lap it in, 195. 

on earth, 453. 

whose circuit is, 67. 
Emathian conqueror, 205. 
Embalmed in tears, 449. 
Embattled farmers stood, 527. 
Embers, glowing, 203. 
Emblem of untimely graves, 363. 
Emblems of deeds, 478. 

right meet of decency, 327. 
Embosomed in the deep, 343. 
Embrace me she inclined, 206. 
Embryo, chancellor in, 327. 
Emelie, up rose, 3. 
Eminence, that bad, 174. 
Eminent, tax for being, 247. 
Emits a brighter ray, 349. 
Emperor without his crown, 262. 
Empire, course of, 257. 

cutpurse of the, 115. 

rod of, 333. 

star of, 257. 

trade's proud, 319. 
Empires, whose game was, 485. 
Employment, hand of little, 117. 

wishing the worst, 264. 
Emplovments, how various his, 

362. 
Emprise and fioure, 5. 



Emptv boxes, beggarly account of, 
80. 

cock-loft is, 210. 

praise, pudding against, 291. 
Empty-vaulted night, 195. 
Enamell'd eyes, 200. 
Enamour'd, hung over her, 184. 
Enchant thine ear, 134. 
Enchantment, distance lends, 439. 
Enchants the world, 309. 
Encompass the tomb, 460. 
Encounter, free and open, 208. 

of our wits, 68. 
End, attempt the, 160. 

beginning of our, 34. 

beginning of the, 594. 

crowns all, 74. 

hope to the, 577. 

in wand'ring mazes, 176. 

of fame, 487. 

me no ends, 613. 

means unto an, 516. 

must justify the means, 242. 

original and, 320. 

served no private, 279. 

to know mine, 547. 
End-all, might be the, 90. 
Endeavour, too painful an, 277. 
Ending, never, still beginning,22i. 
Endless night, 330. 
Endow a college or a cat, 278. 
Ends, neglecting worldly, 17. 

of verse, 215. 

old odd, 69. 

thou aimest at, 73. 
Endurance foresight, 404. 
Endure, human hearts, 319. 

we first, then pity, 273. 
Endured, not to be, 27, 44. 
Enemies, naked to mine, 73. 

of nations, 361. 

shall lick the dust, 549. 
Enemy in their mouths, 127. 

invention of the, 249. 

thing devised by the, 71. 
Enemy's dog, 122. 
Energy divine, 289. 
Engineer hoist with his own petar, 

116. 
England, mariners of, 441. 

martial airs of, 464. 

never shall lie at the proud 
foot of a conqueror, 51. 

roast beef of old, 315. 

slaves cannot breathe in, 361. 

this realm, this, 52. 

true to itself, 51. 

with all her faults, 357, 361. 
English, abusing the king's, 20. 

air, sweet as, 520. 



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653 



English dead v close the wall up 
with, 63. 

legs, one pair of, 63. 

undefyled, well of, 11. 
Enjoy your dear wit, 198. 
Enough is as good as a feast, 604. 

verge, for more, 230. 
Ensample, this noble, 2. 
Ensanguined hearts, 363. 
Ensign beauty, 81. 

imperial, 172, 330. 

tattered, 535. 
Enskied and sainted, 22. 
Entangling alliances, 377. 
Enterprise, life blood of our, 58. 
Enterprises, impediments togreat, 

of great pith, in. 
Entertained angels, 577. 
Entertains the harmless day, 141. 
Enthroned in the hearts, 37. 
Entire affection hateth, 10. 
Entity and quiddity, 213. 
Entrance to a quarrel, 104. 
Entrances and exits, 41. 
Entuned in hire nose, 1. 
Envious tongues, 73. 
Envy hatred and malice, 579. 

of less happier lands, $2. 

will merit, 282. 

withers at another's joy, 308. 
Ephesian dome, 248. 
Ephesus, dame of, 248. 
Epicurus' sty, 350. 
Epitaph, no man write my, 443. 
Epitaphs, let 's talk of, 53. 
Epitome, all mankind's, 223. 
Epocha in the history of America, 

374- 
Equable and pure, 407. 
Equal, all men created, 376. 

and exact justice, 376. 

to all things, 347. 
Equity is a roguish thing, 152. 
Equivocation of the fiend, 99. 

will undo us, 117. 
Ercles' vein, 32. 
Ere I was old, 435. 
Erebus, dark as, 38 
Erect, above himself he can, 142. 
Eremites and friars, 180. 
Erin, exile of, 441. 
Err, they do not, 445. 

to, is human, 83. 
Erring sister's shame, 477. 

spirit hies, 100. 
Error, he was guilty of no, 504. 

of opinion, 376. 

wounded, writhes with pain, 
514* 



Errors, female, 284. 

like straws, 228. 
Eruption, bodes some strange, 100. 
Eruptions strange in nature, 57. 
Escape calumny, shall not, in. 
Eschewed evil, 543. 
Estate, fallen from his high, 220. 

flies of, 155. 
Esteem, to love, to, 434. 
Eternal anarchy, 178. 

blazon must not be, 106. 

friendship, 398. 

frost, that skirt the, 433. 

hope springs, 270. 

now does always last, 167. 

smiles his emptiness betray, 
287. 

summer gilds them yet, 488. 

summer shall not fade, 134. 

sunshine settles, 345. 
Eternities, two, 452. 
Eternity in bondage, 251. 

intimates to man, 251. 

mourns that, 515. 

opes the palace of, 194. 

thou pleasing dreadful, 251. 

wander through, 175. 

wanderers o'er, 472. 

white radiance of, 494. 
Ether, ampler, 408. 
Ethereal mildness, 308. 
Ethiopian change his skin, 564. 
Etrurian shades, 171. 
Euphrasy and rue, 190. 
Europe rings, 206. 
Eve, ear of, 183. 

fairest of her daughters, 182. 

from noon to dewy, 173. 

grandmother, 29. 
Even, gray-hooded, 195. 

such is Time, 597. 

ushers in the, 135. 
Even-handed justice, 90. 
Evening bells, 456. * 

comment, meek Nature 8,414. 

dews of the, shun, 306. 

now came still, 182. 

shades prevail, 252. 

welcome peaceful, 363. 
Evening's close, hie him home at, 

335- 
Event, far-off divine. 524. 

one,happenetluothemall, 558. 
Events, coming, 441. 

spirits of great, 436. 
Ever charming ever new, 312. 

thus from childhood's hour, 
452. 
Ever-dunng dark, 179. 

gates, open'd wide her, 186. 



654 



Index. 



Everlasting flint, 79. 

now, 167. 

yawn confess, 292. 
Every clime adored, 295. 

fool will be meddling, 554. 

inch a king, 122. 

man's work, 573. 

one as God made him, 9. 

one that hath, 569. 

virtue under heaven, 288. 

why hath a wherefore, 605. 
Everything by starts, 223. 

handsome, 28. 

time tries the troth in, 6. 
Everywhere confessed, 318. 

his place, 166. 
Evidence of things not seen, 576 
Evil, be not overcome of, 573. 

be thou my good, 181. 

communications, 574. 

day?, though fallen on, 186. 

do, that good may come, 572. 

feared God and eschewed, 543. 

good and good evil, 562. 

goodness in things, 64. 

is wrought by want of thought, 

3°7- 
means of, 171. 
news ride post, 194. 
obscures the show of, 36. 
out of good, 177. 
partial, universal good, 271. 
report and good report, 575. 
root of all, 576. 
still educing good from, 310. 
sufficient unto the day is the, 

567. 
that men do lives after them, 

. 8 5- 

vice lost half its, 353. 
Evils, less of two, 5, 609. 

present, triumph over philoso- 
phy, 210. 
Example, influence of, 326. 

teaching by, 258. 

you with thievery, 81. 
Exceeding wise fair-spoken, 74. 
Excel, \ is useless to, 324. 

unstable thou shalt not, 541. 
Excellence it cannot reach, 308. 
Excellent thing in woman, 122. 

to have a giant's strength, 23. 
Excess of glory obscured, 172. 

of light, blasted with, 330. 

wasteful and ridiculous, 51. 
Exchequer of the poor, 52. 

rob me the, 58. 
Excrement, general, 81. 
Excuse, fault worse by the, 51. 

for the glass, 383. 



Excused his devilish deeds, 182. 
Execrable shape, 179. 
Execute their airy purposes, 172. 
Executes a freeman's will, 492. 
Exempt from public haunt, 39. 
Exercise, for cure depend on, 224. 
Exhalation, like an, 173. 

like a bright, 72. 
Exhalations of the dawn, 436. 
Exhaled and went to heaven, 264. 

he was, 226. 
Exhausted worlds, 318. 
Exile of Erin, 441. 
Existence, secured in her, 251. 
Exit, called to make our, 378. 
Exits and their entrances, 41. 
Expatiate free o'er all this, 269. 
Expatiates in a life to come, 270. 
Expectation, better bettered, 26. 

fails, oft, 45. 

makes a blessing dear, 157. 
Experience be a jewel, 21. 

made him sage, 502. 

old, do attain, 203. 

tells in every soil, 343. 

to make me sad, 43. 
Expletives their feeble aid, 281. 
Explain a thing till all men doubt, 
292. 

the asking eye, 287. 
Explore the thought, 287. 
Expose thyself (o feel, 121. 
Exposition of sleep, 33. 
Express, painting can, 257, 
Expressed in fancy, 104. 
Expressive silence, 310. 
Extend a mother's breath, 287. 
Extenuate, nothing, 130. 
External ordinances, 321. 
Extravagant and erring spirit, 100. 
Extreme, few in the, 273. 

perplex'd in the, 131. 
Extremes by change more fierce, 
176. 

heard so oft in worst, 171. 

in man, 278. 

in nature, 278. 
Extremity, most dark, 450. 
Exultations agonies, 412. 
Eye and prospect of his soul, 28. 

apple of his, 541, 546. 

behind you, 47. 

curtains of thine, 18. 

defiance in their, 343. 

dissolved in dew, 373. 

explain the asking, 287. 

fades in his, 250. 

fire in each, 285. 

for eye, 541. 

great task-master's, 205. 



Index. 



655 



Eye, harvest of a quiet, 418. 
heaven in her, 187. 

in a fine frenzy rolling, 34. 

in my mind's, 102. 

inward, of solitude, 404. 

jaundiced, 283. 

lack-lustre, 40. 

like Mars, 115. 

looks with a threatening, 50. 

nature's walks, 269. 

negotiate for itself, 26. 

not satisfied with seeing, 557. 

of a needle, 568. 

of day, 5, 205. 

of Greece, 192. 

of heaven, beauteous, 10, 51. 

of nature, 420. 

of newt and toe of frog, 96. 

of vulgar light, 454. 

one dropping, 101. 

peril in thine, 77. 

precious seeing to the, 30. 

pupil of the, 459. 

saw me it gave witness, 542. 

sublime declar'd, 181. 

tear in her, 447. 

to watch, 456. 

twinkling of an, 574. 

unborrowed from the, 406. 

unforgiving, 383. 

was dim and cold, 509. 

was in itself a soul, 479. 

was on the censer, 536. 

where feeling plays, 408. 

which hath the merriest, 65. 

white wench's black, 79. 

will mark our coming, 486. 
Eyeballs roll, 294. 
Eyebrow, to his mistress', 41. 
Eyelids of the morn, 199. 

weigh down my, 61. 
Eyes are dim, 418. 

are homes of silent prayer, 522. 

are in his mind, 436. 

dear as these, 236. 

death within mine, 69. 

drink to me only with thine, 
144. 

dying, were clos'd, 296. 

happiness through another 
man's 43. 

hath not a Jew, 36. 

history in a nation's, 334. 

lids of Juno's, 48. 

light in woman's, 456. 

like stars, 106. 

look your last, 81. 

love looks not with, 32. 

make pictures, 436. 

man with large gray, 402. 



Eyes, not a friend to close his, 220, 

of sentiment, 536. 

poorly satisfy our, 141. 

rain influence, 202. 

reflecting gems, 69. 

severe and beard of formal 
cut, 41. 

she gave me, 401. 

show his, and grieve his heart, 
96. 

sought the west afar, 444. 

soul sitting in thine, 202. 

speculation in those, 95. 

the break of day, 24. 

the glow-worm lend thee, 158. 

to the blind, 542. 

unto dying. 521. 

were made for seeing, 526. 

which spake, 47. 

with his half-shut, 284. 
Eyesight, treasure of his, 76. 
Eyne, with pink, 131. 

Fabric, baseless, of this vision, 18. 
huge, rose like an exhalation, 

Face, continuall comfort in a, 12. 

divine, human, 179. 

familiar with her, 273. 

garden in her, 139. 

give me a, 144. 

hides a shining, 369. 

in her, excuse, 190. 

in his morning, 346. 

is as a book, 90. 

labour bears a lovely, 165. 

like the milky way, 157. 

look on her, 284. 

man had fixed his, 409. 

mind's construction in the, 89. 

music breathing from her, 479. 

music of her, 161. 

of heaven so fine, 79. 

of joy we wear, 418. 

one beloved, 482. 

pardoned all except her, 490. 

shining morning, 41. 

some awful moment, 419. 

sweat of thy, 540. 

ten commandments in your, 
66, 610. 

that launched a thousand 
ships, 15. 

that makes simplicity a grace, 
144. _ 

transmitter of a foolish, 307. 

truth has such a, 225. 

umbered, 64. 

visit her, too roughly, 101. 
Faces, dusk, with turbans, 192. 



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Index. 



Faces of the poor, 562. 

old familiar, 429. 

sea of upturned, 464. 
Facing fearful odds, 511. 
Facts are stubborn things, 340, 
605. 

imagination for his, 384. 
Faculties, hath borne his, 90. 

infinite in, 109. 
Faculty divine, 422. 
Fade, all that 's bright must, 456. 

as a leaf, 564. 
Faded like the morning dew, 439. 
Fades o'er the waters blue, 468. 
Fading honours of the dead, 444. 
Faery elves, 173. 

of the mine, 196. 
Fail, if we should, 91. 

never, who die in a great 
cause, 485. 

no such word as, 505. 

not for sorrow, 524. 

we will not, 91. 
Failed the bright promise, 460. 
Failing, every, but their own, 477. 
Failings leaned to virtue's side, 

345- 
Fails, oft expectation, 45. 
Fain would I climb, 13. 
Faint and fear to live alone, 503. 

heart ne'er won, 605. 
Fair as a star, 402. 

gift for my, 327. 

good-night, 447. 

humanities, 436. 

is foul, 88. 

is she not passing, 19. 

laughs the morn, 331. 

none but the brave deserve 
the, 220. 

Science frowned not, 335. 

spoken and persuading, 74. 

to fair he flew, 446. 

undress best dress, 310 

women and brave men, 470. 
Faire, to bud out, 10. 
Fairer spirit conveyed, 300. 

than the evening air, 15. 
Fairest of her daughters Eve, 182. 
Fairies' midwife, 76. 
Fairy fiction drest, 331. 

hands their knell is rung, 339. 

takes nor witch, 101. 
Faith and hope, 274. 

and morals which Milton held, 

4*3- 

has centre everywhere, 522. 
I have kept the, 576. 
in honest doubt, 523. 
in some nice tenets, 166. 



Faith in womankind, 521. 

is half confounded, 336. 

is the substance of things 
hoped for, 576. 

modes of, 273. 

of many made for one, 273. 

of reason, 436. 

plain and simple, 86. 

pure-eyed, 195. 

ripened into, 424. 

we walk by, not by sight, 575. 

work of, 575. 
Faith's defender, 305. 
Faithful among the faithless, 186. 

dog shall bear him company, 
270. 

in action, 279. 

unto death, be thou, 578. 
Falcon towering in her pride, 93. 
Falcons, hopes like towering, 242. 
Fall, it had a dying, 46, 

needs fear no, 231. 

of a sparrow, 119, 

successive, 298. 

though free to, 180. 

what a, was there, 86. 
Fallen, be for ever, 171. 

from his high estate, 220. 

into the sear the yellow leaf, 

97; 

Lucifer, how art thou, 562. 

on evil days, 186. 
Falling in melody back, 433. 

with a falling state, 297. 
Falling-off was there, 106. 
Fallings from us vanishings, 422. 
Falls as the leaves do, 147. 

like Lucifer, 72. 
False and fleeting as't is fair, 461. 

and hollow, all was, 174. 

as dicers' oaths, 115. 

fires, kindles, 420. 

fugitive, 177. 

philosophy, 176. 

science betray'd, 359. 

would'st not play, 89. 
Falsehood, a goodly outside, 36. 

can endure, 184. 

heart for, framed, 383. 

under saintly shew, 181. 
Falstaff sweats to death, 55. 
Falter not for sin, 524. 
Fame, blush to find it, 288. 

cover his high, 149. 

damned to, 275, 291. 

elates thee, 453. 

fool to, 286. 

great heir of, 204, 

hard to climb the steep of, 359. 

honest, grant me, 294. 



Index. 



657 



Fame Is no plant, 200. 

is the spur, 199. 

martyrdom of, 482. 

on lesser rains, 164. 

outlives in, 24S. 

rage for, 373. 

unknown. 335. 

what is the end of, 487. 
Fame's eternal bead-roll, 11. 

proud temple. 359. 
Familiar as his garter, 62. 

be thou, 103. 

beast to man, 20. 

beauty grows, 250. 

but not coarse, 320. 

faces, old. 429. 

friend, mine own, 580. 

in his mouth, 64. 

in their mouths, 64. 

with her face, 273. 

with his hoary locks, 501. 
Familiarity, upon, will grow more 

contempt, 20. 
Families of yesterday, 240. 
Famine should be filled, 178. 
Famous by my sword, 169. 

found myself, 491. 

to all ages, 207. 

victory, 427. 
Fan me while I sleep, 361. 

with his lady's, 56. 
Fancies, men's more giddy, 46. 

thick-coming, 98. 
Fancy, bright-eyed, 330. 

chuckle, 231. 

fed, hope is theirs by, 328. 

free, 33. 

his imperial, 396. 

home-bound, 515. 

like the finger of a clock, 363. 

most excellent, 118. 

motives of more, 45. 

not expressed in, 104. 

reason virtue, 311. 

sweet and bitter, 43. 

whispers of, 320. 
Fancy's coarse, impediments in, 

45- 

meteor ray, 388. 

rays the hills adorning, 3S8. 
Fanny's, pretty, way, 259. 
Fantasies, thousand', 195. 
Fantastic as a woman's mood, 449. 

summer's heat, 52. 

toe, light. 201. 

toys, painted trifles and, 337. 
Fantasy, vain, 77. 
Fantasy's hot fire, 445. 
Far above the great, 330. 

as angel's ken, 170. 

28* 



Far as the solar walk, 270. 
from gay cities, 299. 
less sweet to live with them, 

455- 

off his coming shone, 186. 
Fardels bear, who would, in. 
Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 481. 
Farewell a long farewell, 72. 

a word that must be, 476. 

content, 129. 

for ever and for ever, 87. 

goes out sighing, 74. 

happy fields, 171. 

hope, fear, remorse, 181. 

I only feel, 466. 

that fatal word, 480. 

the neighing steed, 129. 

the plumed troop, 129. 

the tranquil mind, 129. 

to thee Araby's daughter, 452. 
Farewells to the dying, 533. 
Far-off divine event, 524. 
Farre stretched greatness, 13. 
Fashion, glass of, 112. 

high Roman, 132. 

of these times, 40. 

of this world, 574. 

wears out more apparel, 27. 
Fashion's brightest arts, 346. 
Fashioned so slenderly, 506. 
Fashioneth their hearts alike, 547. 
Fast and loose, 605. 

by a brook, 359. 

by the oracle of God, 170. 

by their native shore, 368. 

in fires, confined to, 106. 

spare, 202. 
Fasten him as a nail, 562. 
Fasting for a good man's love, 42. 
Fat contentions, 207. 

dividends, incarnation of. 526. 

men about me that are, 83. 

more, than bard beseems, 311. 

oily man of God, 311. 

oxen, who drives, 322. 

things, feast of, 563. 

weed on Lethe wharf, 106. 
Fatal and perfidious bark, 200. 

bell-man, 92. 

gift of beauty, 473. 
Fate and wish agree, 446, 

armour against, 160. 

bond of, 96. 

book of, 269. 

cries out, 105. 

fixed, freewill, 176. 

forced by. 227. 

he either fears his, 169. 

itself could awe, 249. 

man meets his, 263. 

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658 



Index, 



Fate of Rome, big with the, 250. 

of mighty monarchs, 309. 

seemed to wind him up, 229. 

stamp of, 298. 

storms of, 297. 

take a bond of, 96. 

to conquer our, 442. 

torrent of his, 317. 
Fates, masters of their, 82. 
Father and my Friend, 232. 

antic the law, 54. 

feeds his flocks, 341. 

hoarding went to hell, 67. 

no more like my, 102. 

of all in every age, 295. 

of the man, 401. 

to that thought, 62. 

wise, that knows his own 
child, 36. 
Fatherly, lift it up, 539. 
Fathom five, 17. 

line could never touch, 55. 
Fattest hog in Epicurus' sty, 350. 
Fault, condemn the, 23. 

excusing of a, 51. 

grows two thereby, 155. 

he that does one, 254. 

hide the, 295. 

just hint a, 286. 

seeming monstrous, 42. 

stars more in, 242. 
Faultless monster, 235. 

piece to see, 281. 
Faults, best men moulded out of, 

25- 

blind to her, 241. 

lie gently on him, 73. 

thou hast no, 244. 

to scan, 345. 

vile ill-favour'd, 21. 

with all her, 357. 

with all thy, 361. 
Favour, to this, she must come, 

118. 
Favourite has no friend, 336. 

to be a prodigal's, 420. 
Favourites early death, heaven 

gives its, 474. 
Favours, hangs on prince's, 72. 

secret sweet and precious, 

335. 
Fawne and crouch, 12, 
Fawning, thrift may follow, 113. 
Fayre and fetishly, 1. 
Fear and Bloodshed, 419. 

early and provident, 355. 

God ! honour the King, 577. 

is affront and jealousy injus- 
tice, 260. 

of God before their eyes, 572. 



Fear o' Hell 's a hangman's whip, 
387. 

thy nature, 89. 

to live alone, 503. 
Fearful summons, 100. 
Fearfully and wonderfully made, 

Fears and saucy doubts, 94. 

do make us traitors, 96. 

his fate too much, 169. 

of the brave, 317. 

our hopes belied our, 506. 

present, 89. 

to beat away, 408. 
Feast, enough is good as a, 604. 

going to a, 144. 

gorgeous, 198. 

imagination of a, 52. 

of Crispian, 64. 

of fat things, 563. 

of languages, 31. 

of nectar'd sweets, 197. 

of reason, 288. 
Feasting, house of, 558. 

presence full of light, 81. 
Feather, a wit 's a, chief a rod, 274. 

is wafted downwards, 532. 

of his own, espied, 168. 

that adorns the royal bird, 

599- 

waft a, or to drown a fly, 261. 

whence the pen, 416. 
Feats of broil and battle, 123. 
Feature, cheated of, 68. 

so scented the grim, 190. 
Features, homely, 198. 
Fed of the dainties, 30. 

show myself highly, 45. 
Fee the doctor, 224. 
Feeble, forcible, 61. 

woman's breast, 407. 
Feed fat the ancient grudge, 35. 

his sacred flame, 433. 

on hope, 12. 

on prayers, 140. 
Feeder, blasphemes his, 198. 
Feel and to possess, 469. 

another's woe, 295. 

by a kick, 216. 

like one who treads alone, 

457 
that [ am happier, 187. 
to hear to see to, 469. 
your honour grip, 387. 
Feeling deeper than all thought, 

526. 
hearts touch them but rightly, 

399- 
of his business, 117. 
of sadness, 532. 



Index. 



659 



Feelings, great, came to them, 500. 

to mortal given, 448. 

unemployed, 477. 
Feels at each thread, 270. 

meanest thing that, 406. 

the noblest acts the best, 516. 
Fees, flowing, 207. 
Feet, bar my constant, 311. 

beneath her petticoat, 157. 

close about his, 500. 

like snails did creep, 158. 

many-twinkling, 329. 

nailed on the bitter cross, 54. 

standing with reluctant, 532. 

through faithless leather, 268. 

to the foe, 441. 

to the lame, 545. 
Feinen things, 3. 
Felicitie, what more, 11. 
Felicity, our own we make, 319. 
Fell, Doctor, I do not love thee, 240. 

like autumn fruit, 229. 

like stars, 438. 

purpose, 89. 
Fellow, dies an honest, 147. 

in a market-town, 373. 

in the firmament, 84. 

mad, met me, 58. 

many a good tail, 55. 

no feeling of his business, 117. 

of infinite jest, 118. 

of no mark, 57. 

that haih had losses, 28. 

that hath two gowns, 28. 

there 's a lean, 165. 

want of it the, 274. 

with the best king, 367. 
Fellow-fault to match it, 42. 
Fellow-feeling, 338. 
Fellows of the baser sort. 572. 

young, will be young, 35S. 
Fellowship, right hands of, 575. 
Felony to drink small beer, 66. 
Felt along the heart, 406. 

in the blood, 406. 

the halter draw, 381. 
Female errors fall, 284. 

for one fair, 225. 

of sex it seems, 193. 
Fence, cunning in, 48. 

dazzling, 198. 
Fens bogs dens, 177. 
Ferdinand Mentez Pinto, 256. 
Fever, after life's fitful, 94. 

of the world, 406. 
Fevered blood, 449. 
Few and far between, 440. 

are chosen, 5 S3. 

die and none resign, 377. 

in the extreme, 273. 



Few plain rules, 413. 

strong instincts, 413. 
Fiat justitia ruat coelum, 589. 
'-■ Fib, destroy his, 2S6. 
I Fibs, tell you no, 350. 
Fickle as a dream, 449. 

fierce and vain, 449. 
Fico for the phrase, 20. 
Fiction, fairy, drest, 331. 

truth stranger than, 491. 
Fie fob and fum, 121. 

on possession, 4. 
Field, ample, 269. 

and flood, 124. 

back to the, 441. 

be lost, what though the, 170. 

flower of the, 550. 

in the tented, 123. 

lilies of the, 567. 

s.ix Richmonds in the, 71. 

squadron in the, 123. 
Fields and dales, 15. 

babbled of green, 63. 

beloved in vain, 328. 

better to hunt in, 224. 

farewell happy, 171. 

out of old, 4. 

raw in, 224. 

showed how, were won, 345. 
Fiend angelical 79. 

equivocation of the, 99. 

frightful, 430. 
Fiends juggling, 99. 
Fierce as ten furies, 177. 

democratie, 192. 

repentance, 308. 
Fiercer by despair, 174. 
Fiery soul working its way, 221. 

floods, to bathe in, 24. 

Pegasus, 58. 
Fife, ear-piercing, 129. 

wry-necked, 36. 
Fig for care and a fig for woe, 140. 
Fight again, those that fly may, 219. 

another daie, 586. 

famoused for, 134. 

for such a land, 446. 

I dare not, 62. 

the good fight, 576. 
Fighting, for want of, 213. 
Fights and runs away, 586. 

by my side, soldier who, 454. 
Fig-tree, under his, 568. 
Figure for the time of scorn, 130. 

the thing we like, we, 515. 
Filches from me my good name, 

127. 
Files, foremost, of time, 519. 
Filip me with a three-man beetle, 
60. 



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Fill the fife, 450. 
Filled with fury, 339. 

sails and streamers waving, 

*93- . 

Fills the air around with beauty, 

474- 
Filthy lucre, 576. 
Final goal of ill, 523. 
Finds the down pillow hard, 133. 
Fine by defect, 277. 
by degrees, 242. 
frenzy rolling, 34. 

puss-gentleman, 367. 
words ! ' wonder where you 
stole 'em, 245. 
Finer form or lovelier face, 448. 
Finger of a clock, 363. 

slow and moving, 130. 

unmoving, 130. 
Fingers rude, 199. , 

Finished my course, 576. 
Fire answers fire, 63. 

beds of raging, 177. 

burned, while I was musing 
the, 547. 

coals of, 556, 573. 

from the mind, 470. 

in antique Roman urns, 368. 

in each eye, 285. 

little, kindleth, 577. 

little, quickly trodden out, 67. 

muse of, 62. 

one, bums out another's, 76. 

purge off the baser, 174. 

shirt of, 529. 

souls made of, 268. 

stood against my, 122. 

three removes bad as a, 316. 

uneffectual, 107. 

who can hold a, 52. 

yreken in our ashen cold, 3. 
Fired the Ephesian dome, 248. 

that the houserejects him, 286, 
Fires, confin'd to fast in, 106. 

kindle false, 420. 

live their wonted, 334. 

of ruin glow, 439. 
Fireside happiness, 399. 
Firm concord holds, 176. 
Firmament, no fellow in the, 84. 

now glowed the, 182. 

o'erhanging, 109. 

pillared, 197. 

showeth his handywork, 547. 
Firm-set earth, 92. 
First by whom the new are tried, 
281. 

flower of the earth, 456. 

gem of the sea, 456. 

in war first in peace, 393. 



First to fade away, 452. 

true gentleman, 165. 

who came away, 486. 
Fir-trees dark and high, 507. 
Fish all that cometh to net, 7. 

nor flesh, 608. 

ye 're buying, 507. 
Fishes gnawed upon, 69. 

live in the sea, 133. 

that tipple, 161. 
Fishified, how art thou, 79. 
Fish-like smell, 18. 
Fist instead of a stick, 212. 
Fit audience though few, t86. 
Fit 's upon me now, 149. 
Fits 't was sad by, 339. 
Fittest place where man can die, 

5°4- 
Five fathom under the Rialto, 484. 

hundred friends, 362. 

reasons why men drink, 235. 

words long, 520. 
Fix itself to form, 522. 
Fixed fate free-will, 176. 

figure, 130. 

like a plant, 272. 
Flag, death's pale, 81. 

has braved a thousand years, 
441. 

of our union, 512. 

of the free heart's, 496. 
Flame, adding fuel to the, 194. 

nurse a, 443. 

that lit the battle's wreck, 497. 
Flames, paly, 63. 
Flanders, our armies swore terri- 
bly in, 326. 

received our yoke, 168. 
Flash and outbreak, 108. 

those sparks, 304. 
Flashes of merriment, 118. 
Flat burglary, 28. 

despair, 174. 

sea sunk, 196. 

that 's, 30, 58. 
Flattered, being then most, 84. 

to tears, 498. 
Flatterers besieged, 287. 

he hates, 84. 
Flattering painter, 347. 

tale, 497. 
Flattery 's the food of fools, 246. 

lost on poet's ear, 444. 

to name a coward, 400. 
Flea has smaller fleas, 245. 

that 's a valiant, 53. 
Fled murmuring, 184. 
Fleeting and false, 461. 

good, 342. 

show, the world is all a, 458. 



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Flesh and blood can't bear it, 305. 

and the devil, 579. 

how art thou fishified, 79. 

is grass, 563. 

is heir to, no. 

is weak, 569. 

nor herring, 608. 

too solid, 101. 

unpolluted, ir8. 
•weariness of the, 560. 

will quiver, 268. 
Flies an eagle flight, 81. 

of estate, 155. 

with swallows' wings, 70. 
Flight of ages, 437. 

of common souls, 341. 

of future days, 175. 

soonest take their, 238. 
Flighty purpose, 96. 
Fling away ambition, 72. 

but a stone, 304. 
Flint, everlasting, 79. 

snore upon the, 133. 
Flinty and steel couch, 125. 
Flirtation, significant word, 306. 
Float double swan and shadow, 
412. 

upon the wings of night, 195. 
Floating bulwark, 356. 
Flock, however watched, 533. 
Flocks, father feeds his, 341. 
Flood and field, 124. 

leap into this angry, 82. 

seems motionless, 411. 

taken at the, 87. 
Floods, bathe in fiery, 24. 
Floor nicely sanded, 346. 

of heaven, 38. 
Flour of wifly patience, 4. 
Floure of floures, 5. 
Floures in the mede, 5. 

white and red, 5. 
Flourish in immortal youth, 251. 
Flow like thee, 164. 

of soul, 288. 
Flower born to blush unseen, 333. 

bright consummate, 185. 

bright golden, 197. 

every, enjoys the air, 417. 

every leaf and every, 186. 

man a, he dies, 31S. 

meanest, that blows, 422. 

of glorious beauty, 230. 

of sweetest smell, 410. 

of the field, 550. 

offered in the bud, 254. 

prove a beauteous, 78. 

safety, 56. 

sculptured. 514. 

that smiles to-day, 158. 



Flowre, no daintie, 10. 
Floweret of the vale, 335. 
Flowers and fruits of love, 485. 

appear on the earth, 561. 

are lovely, 435. 

awake to the, 454. 

baptism o'er the, 159. 

bitter o'er the, 468. 

chaliced,_ 132. 

have their time to wither, 496. 

of all hue, 181. 

purple with vernal, 200. 

shut of evening, 189. 

Spring unlocks the, 460. 

that skirt the eternal frost, 433. 

to feed on, n. 
Flowery meads in May, 157. 
Flowing cups, freshly remem- 
bered in their, 64. 

fees and fat contentions, 207. 

limb in pleasure drowns, 310. 
Flown with insolence, 172. 
Flows all that charms, 435. 

in fit words, 223. 
Flung rose flung odours, 188. 
Flutes and soft recorders, 172. 
Fluttered your Volscians, 75. 
Fly betimes, 150. 

for those that, 219, 586. 

not yet, 454. 

that sips treacle, 301. 

to drown a, 261. 
Flying-chariot, 371. 
Foam is amber, 164. 

on the river, 448. 
Foe, ever sworn the, 397. 

feet to the, 441. 

insolent, 124. 

let in the, 193. 

manly, 398. 

overcome but half his, 173. 

they come they come, 471. 

to Love, unrelenting, 311. 
Foeman worthy of their steel, 449. 
Foes, long inveterate, 225. 

thrice he routed all his, 220. 
Fog or fire by lake or fen, 196. 
Fold, wolf on the, 481. 
Folding of the hands, 552. 
Folio, volumes in, 29. 
Folk to gon on pilgrimages, 1. 
Folks, unhappy, on shore, 428. 
Follies of the wise, 317. 
Follow as the night the day, 104. 

so fast they, 117. 
Following his plough, 405. 
Folly as it flies, 269. 

grow romantic, 277. 

into sin, 450. 

is all they 've taught me, 456. 



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Folly 's at full length, 259. 

loves the martyrdom, 482. 

mirth glide into, 450. 

shunn'st the noise of, 203. 

to be wise, 529. 

wherein you spend your, 148. 

woman stoops to, 349. 
Fond hope of many nations, 475. 

imaginations, 412. 

memory brings, 457. 

of humble things, 253. 

to rule alone, 286. 
Fondest hopes decay, 452. 
Fondness, weep in, 236. 
Fontarabian echoes borne, 447. 
Food, are of love the, 189. 

convenient for me, 557. 

crops the flowery, 269. 

for powder, 58. 

human nature's daily, 404. 

minds not craving for, 384. 

of better fancy, 43. 

of fools, flattery's the, 246. 

of love, 46. 

of sweetly uttered knowledge, 
14. 

pined and wanted, 401. 
Fool at forty, 267. 

at thirty, 262. 

counted wise, 554. 

every inch that is not, 223. 

hath said in his heart, 546. 

in a mortar, 557. 

laughter of a, 558. 

me to the top of my bent, 1 14. 

more hope of a, 556. 

more knave than, 16. 

now and then be right, 367. 

of nature stood, 224. 

outlives in fame the pious, 248. 

resolved to live, 148. 

smarts so little as a, 286. 

to fame, 286. 

to make me merry, 43. 

who thinks by force or skill, 
260. 

will be meddling, 554 

with judges, 367. 
Fooled with hope, 229. 
Foolery governs the world, 152. 
Fools admire, 282. 

are my theme, 466. 

ever since the conquest, 234. 

food of, 246. 

for arguments use wagers, 216. 

for forms of government con- 
test, 273. 

make a mock at sin, 553. 

men may live, 264. 

money of, 151. 



Fools, never-failing vice of, 280. 

of nature, 105. 

paradise of, 180, 384, 609. 

rush in where angels fear, 283. 

shame the, 286. 

suckle, 126. 

supinely stay, 384. 

that crowd thee so, 167. 

the way to dusty death, 98. 

they are, who roam, 315. 

thus we play the, 60. 

who came to scoff, 345. 

young men think old men, 602. 
Foot and hand go cold, 9. 

chancellor's, 152. 

for foot hand for hand, 541. 

has music in 't, 372. 

is on my native heath, 450. 

more light, 448. 

of time, 45, 438. 

so light a, 79. 
Footprints on the sands, 530. 
Footsteps in the sea, 369. 
For of all sad words, 525. 
Forbearance ceases to be a virtue, 

35 1- 
Force of Nature could no further 
go, 226. 

of the crown, 323. 

who overcomes by, 173. 
Forced from their homes, 343. 
Forcible are right words, 544. 

Feeble, 61. 
Forcibly if we must, 397. 
Fordoes or makes me quite, 130. 
Forefathers of the hamlet, 332. 
Forefinger of all time, 520. 

of an alderman, 76. 
Foregone conclusion, 129. 
Forehead, godlike, 421. 

of the moving sky, 200. 
Foreheads, villanous, 18. 
Foreknowledge absolute, 176. 
Forelock, from his parted, 181. 
Foremost files of time, 519. 

man of all this world, 86. 
Forespent night of sorrow, 163. 
Forest by slow stream, 436. 

pacing through the, 43. 

primeval, 532. 
Forests are rended, 449. 
Forest-side or fountain, 173. 
Forever float that standard sheet, 
496. 

fortune wilt thou prove, 311. 

known to be, 166. 

singing, 253. 

still forever, 481. 
Forfeit once, all the souls that 
were, 23. 



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Forget all time, with thee con- 
versing, 183. 

my sovereign, 371. 

never never can, 505. 

the human race, 475. 

thee O Jerusalem, 551. 
Forgetful to entertain strangers, 

577- 
Forgetfulness, dumb, 334. 

not in entire, 421. 

steep my senses in, 61. 
Forget-me-nots of the angels, 532. 
Forgive, divine to, 283. 

the crime, 438. 
Forgiveness to the injured, 228. 
Forgot for which he toil'd, 134. 
Forgotten dream, 406. 

the inside of a church, 57. 
Forked radish, 61. 
Forlorn hie jacet, 411. 
Formal cut, beard of, 41. 
Form and feature, outward, 436. 

mould of, 112. 

of life and light, 478. 
Formed by thy converse, 275. 
Forms of ancient poets, 436. 

of government, 273. 

of things unknown, 34. 

that once have been, 531. 

unseen, their dirge is sung, 339. 
Forsake me, do not, 232. 
Forsaken, when he is, 507. 
Forsworn, sweety were, 24. 
Fortress built by nature, 52. 
Fortune, for ever, wilt thou prove, 

3"- 

hostages to, 136. 

I care not, 311. 

leads on to, 87. 

means most good, 50. 

prey at, 128. 

railed on Lady, 40. 

slings and arrows of outra- 
geous, no. 

with threatening eye, 50. 
Fortune's buffets, 113. 

cap, 109. 

champion, 50. 

finger, 113. 

ice prefers, 222. 

power, not now in, 215. 

sharpe adversitie, 4. 
Fortunes, battles sieges, 124. 

manners with, 276. 

pride fell with my, 39. 
Forward and frolic glee, 448. 
Forty feeding like one, 405. 

fool at, 267. 

parson power, 490. 

pounds a year, 345. 



Foster-child of silence, 498. 
Fou for weeks thegither, 385. 
Fought a good fight, 576. 

all his battles o'er again, 220. 
Foul deeds will rise, 103. 

is fair, 88. 
Foules maken melodie, 1. 
Found myself famous, 491. 
only on the stage, 489. 
out a gift for my fair, 327. 
Found'st me poor, 347. 
Fount of joy's delicious springs, 

468. 
Fountain, broken at the, 560. 

heads and pathless groves, 

148. 
hither as to their, 187. 
is springing, 4S1. 
of sweet tears, 401. 
troubled, 44. 
Fountain's murmuring wave, 359. 

silvery column, 433. 
Four rogues in buckram, 56. 
Fourteen hundred years ago, 54. 
Foutra for the world, 62. 
Fowl, tame villatic, 194. 
Foxes have holes, 567. 

that spoil the vines, 561. 
Fragments, gather up the, 571. 

of a once glorious union, 462. 
Fragrance after showers, 183. 
Fragrant the fertile earth, 183. 
Frail a thing is man, 600. 
Frailties from their dread abode, 

335 
Frailty thy name is woman, 102. 
Frame, stirs this mortal, 432. 

this goodly, 109. 
Framed to make women false, 125. 
France, threatening, 224. 
Frauds and holy shifts, 215. 
Free as nature, 228. 

land of the, 491. 

livers on a small scale, 465. 

nature's grace, 311. 

or die, 413. 

to fall, 180. 

who would be, muststrike, 469. 

will, fixed fate, 176. 
Freed his soul, 319. 
Freedom from her mountain 
height, 495. 

has a thousand charms, 366. 

in my love, 161. 

of person freedom of religion, 
freedom of the press, 377. 

only deals the deadly b.ow, 

397- 
shrieked as Kosciusko fell, 
439- 



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Freedom to worship God, 497. 
Freedom's banner, 496. 

battle once begun, 477. 

cause, 428. 

hallowed shade, 397. 

holy flame, 329. 

soil beneath our feet, 496. 
Freeman's will, 492. 
Freemen, corrupted, 338. 

we will die, 378. 

who rules o'er, 322. 
Freeze thy young blood, 106. 
Frenche she spake ful fayre, 1. 

of Paris, 1. 
Frenchmen, three, 63. 
Frenzy rolling, 34. 
Frenzy's fevered blood, 449. 
Fresh as a bridegroom, 54. 

gales and gentle airs, 188. 

woods and pastures, 200. 
Freshly ran he on, 229. 
Fret thy soul, 12. 
Fretful stir unprofitable, 406. 
Fretted the pygmy body, 221. 

vault, 332. 

with golden fire, 109. 
Friars and eremites, 180. 
Friend after friend departs, 437. 

as you choose a, 232. 

departed, 226. 

favourite has no, 336. 

house to lodge a, 245. 

in my retreat, 366. 

is such a, 370. 

knolling a departed, 60. 

mine own familiar, 580. 

of every friendless name, 318. 

of my better days, 528. 

of pleasure wisdom's aid. 339 

of woe, 427. 

philosopher and, 276. 

sticketh closer than a, 554. 

thou art not my, 527. 

to close his eyes, 220. 

to my life, 285. 

to Roderick, 449. 

to truth, 279. 

who hath not lost a, 437. 

who lost no, 279. 

wounds of a, 556. 
Friendless name, 318. 
Friendliest to sleep, 185. 
Friendly, show himself, 554. 
Friend's infirmities, 87. 
Friends, adversity of our, 210. 

are exultations, 412. 

backing of your, 56. 

cast off his, 348. 

dear five hundred, 362. 

defend me from my, 595. 



Friends, enter on my list of, 365. 

house of my, 565. 

never-failing, 428. 

old, are best, 152. 

out of sight, we lose, 503. 

request of, 286. 

Romans countrymen, 85. 

three firm, 435. 

to congratulate their, 225. 

troops of, 97. 
Friendship but a name, 348. 

cement of the soul, 307. 

constant save in love, 26. 

generous, no cold medium 
knows, 298. 

is a sheltering tree, 435. 

might divide, 296. 

svyear an eternal, 398. 

with all nations, 376. 
Friendship's laws, 299. 

name, speak to thee in, 457. 
Frightful fiend, 430. 
Frights the isle, 126. 
Fringed curtains of thine eye, 18. 

with fire, 522. 
Frog, thus use your, 153. 

toe of, 96. 
Frolics, youth of, 278. 
From Thee Great God, 320. 
Front, fair large, 181. 

me no fronts, 613. 

of battle lour, 388. 

of Jove, 115. 

of my offending, 123. 
Fronts bore stars, 423. 
Frore burns the air, 176. 
Frost a killing frost, 72. 

curded by the, 75. 

skirt the eternal, 433. 
Frosts, encroaching, 257. 
Frosty but kindly, 40. 

Caucasus, 52. 
Frown at pleasure, 266. 
Frowning Providence, 369. 
Froze the genial current, 333. 
Frozen by distance, 411. 
Frugal mind, 368. 

swain, 341. 
Fruit, like Autumn, 229. 

like ripe, thou drop, 191. 

of that forbidden tree, 170. 

that mellowed long, 229. 

the ripest, first falls, 52. 

tree known by his, 567. 
Fruitless crown, 94. 
Fruit-tree tops, 78. 
Fruits of love are gone, 485. 
Fuel to the flame, 194. 
Fugitive and cloistered virtue, 208. 
Ful wel she sange, 1. 



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Full age, to thy grave in a, 544. 

fathom five, 17. 

many a flower, 333. 

many a gem, 333. 

of goodly prospect, 207. 

of sound and fury, 99. 

of strange oaths, 41. 

of sweet days, 155. 

of wise saws, 41. 

on thy bloom, 386. 

twenty times was Peter feared, 
409. 

well the busy whisper, 346. 

well they laugh'd, 346. 

without o'erfiowing, 164. 
Fulmin'd over Greece, 192. 
Fuming vanities of earth, 414. 
Fun grew fast and furious, 386. 

think he 's all, 537. 
Funeral bak'd meats, 102. 

marches to the grave, 530. 

mirth in, 101. 

note, not a drum was heard, 
not a, 499. 
Funny as I can, 536. 
Furies, harpy-footed, 176. 
Furnace, sighing like, 41. 
Further off from heaven, 507. 
Fury, filled with, 339. 

from your eyes, 304. 

like a woman scorned, 256. 

of a patient man, 223. 

with the abhorred shears, 199. 
Fust in us unused, 116. 
Fustian 's so sublimely bad, 286. 
Future favours, sense of, 253. 

prophets of the, 491. 

Gadding vine, 199. 
Gain or lose it all, 169. 

the timely inn, 94. 

the whole world, 568. 

to die is, 575. 
Gale, catch the driving, 273. 

note that swells the, 335. 

partake the, 276. 

passion is the, 272. 
Gales and gentle airs, 188. 

that from ye blow, 32S. 
Galilean lake, 200. 
Galileo with his woes, 474. 
Gall enough in thy ink, 47. 
Gallant gay Lothario, 257. 
Gallantry with politics, 383. 
Gallery critics, 362. 
Galligaskins long withstood, 257. 
Galls his kibe, 118. 
Game, pleasure of the, 242. 

rigour of the, 429. 

was empires, 485. 



Gang aft a-gley, 386. 

a kennin' wrang, 386. 
Gaping age, 526. 

Garden loves a greenhouse too, 
362. 

in her face, 139. 

the first, 167. 

was a wild, 439. 
Gardens trim, 202, 
Garish sun, worship to the, 79. 
Garland and singing robes, 206. 

of the war, 16. 

to the sweetest maid, 300. 
Garlands dead, 457. 
Garment of praise, 564. 
Garments, his vacant, 50. 
Garret, born in the, 481. 

nature never put her jewels 
into a, 137. 
Gars auld claes, 390. 

me greet, 385. 
Garter, familiar as his, 62. 

mine host of the, 20. 
Garters gold amuse, 273. 
Garth did not write his own Dis- 
pensary, 283. 
Gashed with honourable scars, 438. 
Gate of Eden, 452. 

what boots it at one, 193. 
Gates ever-during, 186. 

of light unbarred, 186. 

of mercy shut, 334. 
Gath, tell it not in, 542. 
Gather to the eyes, 521. 

up the fragments, 571. 

ye rosebuds, 158. 
Gathered every vice, 292. 
Gatherer and disposer, 141. 
Gathering her brows, 385. 
Gaudy, rich not, 104. 
Gave his body to that pleasant 
country 's earth. 53. 

his father grief, 296. 

sign of gratulation, 188. 

the word of onset, 412. 

us nobler loves, 419. 
Gay and ornate, 193. 

from grave to, 275. 

gilded scenes, 252. 

grandsire, 343. 

hope is theirs, 328. 

innocent as, 263, 

Lothario, 257. 
Gayety of nations, 321. 
Gayly the Troubadour, 502. 
Gaze and show, 99. 
Gazed, still they. 346. 
Gazelle, nursed a dear, 452. 
Gem of purest ray serene, 333. 

of the sea, 456. 



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Gems, eyes reflecting, 69. 

rich and rare were the, 454. 
the starry girdle, 440. 
Generalities, glittering, 508. 
Generation passeth away, 557. 
Generations, honourable men in 

their, 566. 
Generous and free, 244. 

friendship, 298. 
Genial current of the soul, 333. 

morn appears, 440. 
Genius, bane of all, 493. 

parting, is with sighing sent, 

204. 
which can perish, 481. 
Genteel in personage, 244. 
Gentil dedes, 3. 

that doth gentil dedes, 4. 
Gentilman, the gretest, 3. 
Gentle airs, 188. 

and low her voice, 122. 
dulness ever loves a joke, 291. 
his life was, 87. 
lights without a name, 157. 
limbs did she undress, 431. 
shepherd tell me where, 313. 
though retired, 384. 
yet not dull, 164. 
Gentleman and scholar, 387. 
first true, 165. 
grand old name of, 524. 
prince of darkness is a, 121. 
who was then the, 589. 
Gentlemen, God Almighty's, 223, 
264. 
of the shade, 54. 
two single, in one, 392. 
who wrote with ease, 289. 
Gently not smiting it, 534. 

scan your brother man, 386. 
Geographers in Afric maps, 245. 
George, if his name be, 49. 

the Third was king, 487. 
German to the matter, 119. 
Gestic lore, 343. 
Get money boy, 145. 

place and wealth, 289. 
thee behind me, 568. 
understanding, 552. 
Getting and spending, 410. 
Ghost beckoning, 296. 
like an ill-used, 307. 
of him, I '11 make a, 105. 
stubborn unlaid, 196. 
there needs no, 107. 
vex not his, 122. 
Ghosts of defunct bodies, 213. 
Giant dies, as when a, 24. 

dies, fling but a stone the, 
304. 



Giant, dwarf on the shoulders of 
a, 437- 

mass, baby figure of the, 74. 
Giant's strength excellent, 2^. 
Giants in the earth, 540. 
Gibber, squeak and, 100. 
Gibbets keep in awe, 267. 

unloaded all the, 58. 
Gibes, where be your, 118. 
Giddy and unfirm, 46. 
Gift for my fair, 327. 

horse in the mouth, 607. 

last best, 184. 

of beauty, 473. 

of fortune, 27. 

of heaven, 279. 

of noble origin, 413. 

which God has given, 445. 
Giftie gie us, 386. 
Gifts and dispensations, 215. 
Gild refined gold, 50. 

the vernal morn, 371. 
Gilead, balm in, 564. 
Gill shall dance, 151. 
Gilpin long live he, 368. 
Gilt, dust that is a little, 74. 

o'erdusted, 74. 
Ginger hot in the mouth, 46. 
Girdle round about the earth, 33. 
Girl graduates, 520. 
Girls, again be courted in your, 

599- 

between two, 65. 

that are so smart, 244. 
Girt with golden wings, 195. 
Give a cup of water, 501. 

an inch he '11 take an ell, 605. 

every man thine ear, 104. 

his little senate laws, 287. 

him a little earth, 73. 

it an understanding, 103. 

me a cigar, 485. 

me a look, 144. 

me again my hollow tree, 288. 

me but what this riband 
bound, 168. 

mc liberty or death, 375. 

me neither poverty nor riches, 

557- 

me ocular proof, 129. 

more blessed to, 572. 

sorrow words, 97. 

thee all — I can no more, 391. 

thee sixpence, 398. 

their readers sleep, 291. 
Given, to him that hath shall be, 
569- 

unsought is better, 47. 
Givers prove unkind, in. 
Gives the nod, 298. 



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667 



Giveth his beloved sleep, 551. 
Giving a gentle kiss, 19. 
Glad diviner's theme, 222. 

father, wise son maketh, 552. 

me with its soft black eye, 452. 

the heart of man, 550. 

waters, o'er the, 4S0. 

would lay me down, 190. 
Gladiator lie, 475. 
Gladlier grew, 187. 
Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly 
teche, 2. 

would I meet, 190. 
Gladness, begin in, 405. 
Gladsome light of, 8. 
Glance from heaven to earth, 34. 

of the mind, 369. 
Glare, caught by, 468. 

of false science, 359. 
Glass darkly, through a, 574. 

excuse for the, 383. 

of fashion, 112. 

of liquid lire, 396. 

wherein the noble youth, 61. 
Glasses itself in tempests, 476. 
Gleaming taper's light, 349. 
Glides the smooth current, 319. 
Glimmer on my mind, 440. 
Glimmering square, casement 

grows a, 521. 

tapers to the sun, 384. 

through the dream of things 
that were, 469. 
Glimmerings and decays, 211. 
Glimpse divine, 293. 

of happiness, 209. 
Glimpses of the moon, 105. 
Glistering grief, 71. 

with dew, i$3 ; 
Glisters, all that, is not gold, 602. 
Glittering generalities, 508. 

like the morning star, 353. 
Globe, all that tread the, 513. 

distracted, 107. 

itself shall dissolve, 18. 
Gloom, counterfeit a, 203. 

of earthquake, 493. 
Glories like glow-worms, 162. 

of our blood, 160. 
Glorious and free, 456. 

by my pen, 169. 

in a pipe, 485. 

Tarn was, 385. 

uncertainty, 304. 
Gloriously drunk, 364. 
Glory, air of, 211. 

alone with his, 499. 

and vain pomp, 72. 

dies not, 396. 

excess of, obscured, 172. 



Glory > full meridian of my, j2. 

full-orbed, 426. 

go where, waits thee, 453. 

hoary head is a crown 01, 554, 

is in their shame, 575. 

jest and riddle, 272. 

of a creditor, 22. 

of an April day, 19. 

passed from the earth, 421. 

paths of, lead but to the grave, 
332 t 

peep into, 211. 

pursue and generous shame, 
329- 

rush to, or the grave, 441. 

set the stars of, 496. 

share the, 7S. 

shows the way, 237. 

to God in the highest, 570. 

track the steps 01, 482. 

trailing clouds of, 421. 

trod the ways of, 72. 

visions of, 331. 

walked in, 405. 

who pants for, 289. 
Glory's lap they lie, 438. 

morning gate, 512. 

page, rank thee upon, 453. 

thrill is o'er, 453. 
Glove, O that I were a, 77. 
Glows in every heart, 26S. 

in the stars, 271. 
Glow-worm lend thee, 158. 

shows the matin, 107. 
Glow-worms, glories like, 162. 
Glozed the tempter, 189. 
Gluttony ne'er looks to heaven, 

198. 
Gnat, strain at a, 569. 
Go, and do thou likewise, 570. 

at once, 95. 

boldly forth my simple lay, 
380. 

call a coach, 243. 

down to the sea in ships, 550. 

his halves, 6. 

no more a roving, 483. 

poor devil get thee gone, 326. 

Soul the body's guest, 597. 

that the devil'drives, 606. 

to the ant thou sluggard, 552. 

we know not where, 24. 

where glory waits thee, 453. 
Goal, final, of ill, 523. 
Goblin damned, 105. 
God a necessary Being, 232. 

ail mercy is a God unjust, 264. 

Almighty first planted a gar- 
den, 360. 

Almighty's gentlemen, 223. 



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Index, 



God alone was to be seen, 483. 

an attribute to, 37. 

and Mammon, 566. 

bless the King, 305. 

bless no harm in blessing, 305. 

could have made a better 
berry, 153. 

disposes, man proposes, 5. 

had I but served my, 73. 

hath made this world, 438. 

helps them that help them- 
selves, 316. 

himself scarce seemed there to 
be, 431. 

just are the ways of, 193. 

made him, he is as, 9. 

made him, let him pass, 35. 

made the country, 360. 

moves in a mysterious way, 
369- 

my Father and my Friend, 
232. 

of my idolatry, 78. 

of storms, 535. 

or devil, 223. 

oracle of, 170. 

save the king, 243. 

send thee good ale, 9. 

sendeth and giveth, 6. 

sends meat, 605. 

sun-flower turns on her, 455. 

takes a text, 155. 

the Father God the Son, 255. 

the first garden made, 167. 

the noblest work of, 274. 
God's mills grind slow, 156, 534. 

most dreadful instrument, 413. 

providenceseemingestranged, 
506. 

power, show likest, 37. 

sons are things, 320. 
Goddess, like a thrifty, 22. 

moves a, 298. 

night sable, 261. 

write about it, 292. 
Godfathers of heaven's lights, 29. 
God-given strength, 446. 
God-like forehead, 421. 

reason, 116. 
Godliness, cheerful, 413. 

cleanliness next to, 312. 
Gods and god-like men, 470. 

approve the depth, 407. 

are just, 122. 

had made thee poetical, 42. 

how he will talk, 237. 

it doth amaze me, 82. 

kings it makes, 70. 

love, whom the, 489. 

names of all the, 83. 



Gods provide thee, 221. 

voice of all the, 31. 
Goes to bed sober, 147. 
Going, order of your, 95. 
Gold, age of, 204. 

all that glisters is not, 602. 

apples of, 556. 

bright and yellow, 508. 

but little in cofre, 2. 

clasps, 76. 

gild refined, 50. 

he loved, in special, 2. 

in phisike is a cordial, 2. 

saint-seducing, 76. 

servile opportunity to, 413. 

thumb of, 2. 

wedges of, 69. 

weight in, 395. 
Golden bowl be broken, 560. 

exhalations, 436. 

keys, clutch the, 523. 

lads and girls, 133. 

mean, 605. 

numbers, 165. 

opinions, 91. 

prime of Alraschid, 517. 

sorrow, 71. 

story, locks in the, 76. 

thumb of miller, 2. 

urns draw light, 187. 

window of the east, 76. 
Gone, and forever, 448. 

before, not dead, but, 399. 

before, not lost but, 399. 

to the grave, 460. 
Good, all things work together for, 
57?. 

and ill together, 45. 

apprehension of the, 52. 

are better made by ill, 400. 

as a feast, 604. 

as a play, 592. 

as she was fair, 400. 

beneath the, 330. 

by stealth, 288. 

cannot come to, 102. 

deed in a naughty world, 38. 

die first, 422. 

evil be thou my, 181. 

evil call, 562. 

familiar creature, 127. 

fellows, king of, 65. 

fellowship in thee, 54. 

for us to be here, 568. 

great man, 435. 

hater, 322. 

hold fast that which is, 576. 

hold thou the, 522. 

in everything, 39. 

luck would have it, 21. 



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659 



Good, luxury of doing, 342. 

man never dies, 437. 

man yields his breaih, 437. 

man's sin, 440. 

men and true, 27. 

men must associate, 351. 

name in man, 127. 

name is better, 558. 

name to be chosen, 555. 

news baits, 194. 

night till it be morrow, 78. 

noble to be, 517. 

nor aught so, 78. 

of my country, 258, 391. 

old age, 540. 

old cause, 413. 

old-gentlemanly vice, 487. 

old rule, 411. 

opinion of the law, 381. 

or evil times, 136. 

parent of, 185. 

part, hath chosen that, 570. 

pleasure ease, 274. 

Queen Bess, 508. 

report and evil report, 575. 

sense the gift of Heaven, 279. 

set terms, 40. 

some fleeting, 342. 

some special, 78. 

sword rust, 434. 

that men do is oft interred 
with their bones, 85. 

the gods provide thee, 221. 

the more communicated, 185. 

thing out of Nazareth, 571. 

things will strive, 18. 

time coming, 450. 

to me is lost, 181. 

war or bad peace, 316. 

we oft might win, 22. 

will be the final goal of ill, 
.523- 

will toward men, 570. 

wine needs no bush, 43. 

wits will jump, 605. 

works, rich in, 576. 
Good-bye proud world, 527. 
Goodliest, express her, 121. 

man of men, 182. 
Goodly outside, 36. 

sight to see, 468. 
Good-man Dull, 30. 
Goodness, how awful is, 184. 

in things evil, 64. 

lead him not, 156. 

never fearful, 24. 

thinks no ill, 180. 
Goods, much, laid up, 570. 
Goose-pen, write with a, 47. 
Gordian knot unloose, 62. 



Gorgeous palaces, 18. 
Gorgons and Hydras, 177. 
Gory locks, never shake thy, 95. 
Gospel-books, lineaments of, 12. 
Gospel-light first dawned, 336. 
Govern my passion, 238. 

those that toil, 343. 
Government, forms of, 273. 

founded on compromise, 352. 
Gown, plucked his, 345. 
Gowns, fellow with two, 28. 

furr'd, 122. 
Grace affordeth health, 598. 

all above is, 226. 

and virtue, 218. 

attractive kinde of, 12. 

beyond the reach of art, 280. 

does it with a better, 46. 

ease with, 310. 

free nature's, 311. 

half so good a, 23. 

love of, 116. 

me no grace, 613. 

melody of every, 161. 

ministers of, 104. 

my cause, 123. 

of a day, 520. 

of finer form, 448. 

power of, 439. 

purity of, 479. 

seated on this brow, 115. 

simplicity a, 144. 

sweet attractive, 181. 

that won, 187. 

unbought, 353. 

was in all her steps, 187. 
Graceless zealots fight, 273. 
Graces all other, 305. 

peculiar, 184. 

sacrifice to the, 306. 
Gracious is the time, 101. 

Tarn grew, 385. 
Gradations of decay, 319. 
Grain, say which, will grow, 88. 
Grammar-school, erecting a, 67. 
Grand old ballad, 434. 

old gardener, 517. 

old name of gentleman, 524. 
Grandam, soul of our, 48. 
Grandmother Eve, 29. 
Grandsire, cut in alabaster, 35. 

phrase, 76. 

skilled in gestic lore, 343. 
Grant an honest fame, 294. 
Grapple them to thy soul, 103. 
Grasp the ocean, 255. 
Grasps the skirts of chance, 523. 
Grass, all flesh is, 563. 

days are as, 550. 

two blades of, 246. 



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Index, 



Grasshopper shall be a burden, 

560. 
Grasshoppers under a fern, 354. 
Grateful evening mild, 183. 

mind by owing, 180. 
Gratiano, I hold the world, 34. 

speaks an infinite deal, 35. 
Gratitude of men, 417. 

of place-expectants, 253. 

still small voice of, 332. 
Gratulation, sign of, 188. 
Gratulations flow, 243. 
Grave, a little little, 53. 

an obscure, 53. 

botanize upon his mother's, 
417. 

come from the, 107. 

cradle stands in the, 146. 

cruel as the, 561. 

dread thing, 307. 

Druid lies in yonder, 340. 

Duncan is in his, 94. 

earliest at his, 495. 

forget thee, 475. 

glory lead but to the, 332. 

gone to the, 460. 

hungry as the, 309. 

in a full age, 544. 

low laid in my, 49. 

mattock and the, 264. 

night of the, 359. 

rush to glory or the, 441. 

she is in her, 402. 

steps of glory to the, 482. 

strewed thy, 119. 

to gav, 275. 

to light, 226, 275. 

where isthy victory, 295, 574. 

where Laura lay, 13. 

wisdom in the, 559. 

with sorrow to the, 540. 

without a, 476. 
Graves arc pilgrim shrines, 529. 

dishonourable, 82. 

let 's talk of, 53. 

of your sires, 528. 

stood tenantless,ioo. 
Gray hairs with sorrow, 540. 

Marathon, 470. 

mare the better horse, 606. 
Gray-hooded even, 195. 
Greasy citizens, 39. 
Great Caesar fell, 86. 

cause, die in a, 485. 

contest follows, 362. 

far above the, 330. 

glorious and free, 456. 

gro'vn so, 83. 

in viTinny, 50. 

is truth and mighty, 566. 



Great let me call him, 268. 

lords' stories, 392. 

none unhappy but the, 257, 
267. 

of old, 484, 

ones eat up the little ones, 133. 

some are born, 47. 

though fallen, 469. 

thoughts great feelings, 500. 

vulgar, 167. 

wits allied to madness, 221. 

wits will jump, 605. 
Greater love hath no man, 572. 

than I can bear, 540. 
Greatest happiness of the greatest 
number, 596. 

love of life, 379. 

men, world knows nothing of 
its, 515. 
Greatness and goodness, 435. 

farewell to all my, 72. 

highest point of all my, 72. 

some achieve, 47. 

substance of his, 149. 
Greatnesse on goodnesse, 222. 
Grecian chisel trace, 448. 
Greece, and fuhnin'd over, 192. 

beauties of exulting, 309. 

but living Greece, 477. 

eye of, 192. 

isles of, 488. 

John Naps of, 44. 

we give our shining blades, 
458. 
Greedy of filthy lucre, 576. 
Greek, above all, 289. 

could speak, 212. 

or Roman name, 226. 

small Latin and less, 145. 

to me, it was, 83. 
Greeks joined Greeks, 237. 
Green and yellow melancholy, 47. 

bay-tree, 547. 

be'thc turf, 528. 

grassy turf, 359. 

in judgment, 131. 

in youth, 298. 

leaf h;is perished in the, 523. 

old age, 229. 

one red, 93. 

pastures, lie down in, 547. 

thought in a green shade, 219. 

tree, things in a, 571. 
Greenhouse, loves a, 362. 
Greenland's icy mountains, 461. 
Green-robed senators, 49S. 
Greetings where no kindness is, 

407. 
Gregory remember thy swashing 
blow, 76. 



Index. 



671 



Grew together like to a double 

cherry, 33. 
Greyhound mongrel grim, 121. 
Greyhounds in the slips, 63. 
Grief, days of my distracting, 341. 

every one can master a, 2j. 

fills the room up, 50. 

gave his father, 296. 

in a glist'ring, 71. 

is past, 396. 

manliness of, 347. 

of a wound, 59. 

patch, with proverbs, 28. 

plague of sighing and, 56. 

smiling at, 47. 

that doas not speak, 97. 

treads upon the heel of pleas- 
ure, 255. 
Griefs, some, are med'cinable, 133. 

that harass, 318. 
Grieve his heart, 96. 
Grieved, we sighed we, 166. 
Grieving over the unreturning 

brave, 471. 
Griffith, honest chronicler as, 74. 
Grim death, 146, 178. 

Feature, scented the, 190. 

repose. 3 \i. 
Grimes, old, is dead, 526. 
Grim-visaged war, 68. 
Grin, one universal, 314. 

so merry, 373. 

to sit and, 535. 
Grind, axe to, 465. 

demd horrid, 538. 

slowly, ivwi.sofGod, 534. 

the faces of the poor, 562. 
Grinders cease, 560. 
Gripe, barren sceptre in my, 94. 

of noose, 381. 
Gristle, people in the, 352. 
Groan, anguish poured his, 318. 

bubbling, 476. 

the kne'l the pall, 528. 
Groans of the dying, 446. 

thy old, ring yet, 79. 
Groined the aisies, 527. 
Grooves of change, 519. 
Grose, his name was, 490. 
Gross and scope, ioo 
Ground, haunted holy, 470. 

let us sit upon the, 53. 

of nature, 4.10. 

on classic, 252. 

purple all the, 200. 

slave to till my, 361. 
water spilt on the, 542. 
Groundlings, ears of the, 112. 
Grove of Academe, 192. 
Groves, God's first temples, 514. 



Grow dim with age, 25 t. 

double, surely you '11, 417. 

wiser and better, 238. 
Grown by what it fed on, 102. 
Grows with his growth, 272. 
Growth, man is the nobler, 378. 

man the only, 342. 

of mother earth, 409. 
Grudge, feed fat the ancient, 35. 
Grundy, what will Mrs., say, 394. 
Guard dies but never surrenders, 
599- . 

our native seas, 441. 

thy bed, holy angels, 255. 
Guardian angel o'er his life pre- 
siding, 399. 

angels sung, 312. 
Gude time coming, 450. 
Gudeman 's awa', 372. 
Gudgeons, swallow, 217. 
Guesseth but in part, 436. 
Guest, speed the going, 288. 

speed the parting, 299. 

the body's, 597. 
Guests are in the depths of hell, 

552. 
Guid to be honest and true, 390. 

to be merry and wise, 390. 
Guide philosopher and friend, 276. 

providence their, 191. 
Guides, blind, 569. 

the planets in theircourse, 400. 
Guilt 's in that heart, 456. 

of Eastern kings, 165. 

rebellion fraud, 250. 

so full of artless jealousy is, 117. 

to cover, 349. 

who fear not, 357. 
Guilty of no error, 504. 

of such a ballad, 29. 

thing, started like a, 100. 

thing surprised, 422. 
Guinea, compass of a, 465. 

jingling of the, 519. 
Guinea's stamp, 389. 
Gulf profound, 176. 
Gum, med'cinable, 131. 
Gun, out of an elder, 64. 
Guns, these vile, 55. 
Gypsies stealing children, 382. 
Habit, costly thy, 104. 

use doth breed a, 19. 
Habitation, local, 34. 
Habits, small, well pursued, 379. 
Had we never loved sae kindly, 389. 
Haggard, do prove her, 128. 
Hags, black and midnight, 96. 
Hail Columbia, 428. 

fellow, well met, 606. 

holy light, 179. 



672 



Index, 



Hail horrors hail, 171. 

the rising sun, 338. 

to the chief, 448. 

wedded love, 183. 
Hails you Tom or Jack, 370. 
Hair, amber-dropping, 198. 

beauty draws us with a single, 
284. 

distinguish and divide, 212. 

just grizzled, 229. 

most resplendent, 403. 

my fell of, 98. 

ninth part of a, 57. 

sacred, dissever, 285. 

shakes pestilence, 177. 

to stand on end, 106. 
Hair-breadth 'scapes, 124. 
Hairs of your head are all num- 
bered, 567. 
Hal, no more of that, 56. 
Half broken-hearted, 466. 

hidden from the eye, 402. 

his Troy was burned, 60. 

in shade and half in sun, 457. 

is more than the whole, 581. 

our knowledge we must 
snatch, 276. 

the creeds, 523. 
Half-pennyworth of bread, 57. 
Half-shirt is two napkins, 58. 
Half-shut eyes, 284. 
Hall, merry in, 7. 
Hallowed is the time, 101. 
Halt ye between two opinions, 

543- 
Halter draw, felt the, 381. 

now fitted the, 241. 
Halves, go his, 6. 
Hamlet is still, at the close of the 
day when the, 359. 

rude forefathers of the, 332. 
Hammer, smith stand with his, 51. 
Hammers closing rivets, 64, 248. 

fell, no, 460. 
Hampden, some village, 333. 
Hand, adore the, 239. 

against every man, 540. 

cheek upon her, 77. 

cloud like a man's, 543. 

findeth to do do it, 559. 

for hand foot for foot, 541. 

handle toward my, 92. 

hold a fire in his, 52. 

in hand, 191, 315. 

in his lifted, 224. 

in thy right, 73. 

led by my, 292. 

let not thy left, 566. 

licks the, 269. 

of little employment, 117. 



Hand open as day, 62. 

put in every honest, 130. 

red right, 175. 

sweet and cunning, 46. 

sweeten this little, 97. 

that dealt the blow, 440. 

that fed them, 355. 

that made us is divine, 253. 

that rounded Peter's dome, 
. 5 2 7- 

time has laid his, 534. 

to execute and head to con- 
trive, 358. 

unlineal, 94. 

unpurchased, 535. 

upon a woman, 400. 

upon the ark, 361. 

upon the Ocean's mane, 501. 

waved her lily, 302. 

with my heart in 't, 18. 

you cannot see, 300. 
Handel 's but a ninny, 305. 
Handle not taste not, 575. 

toward my hand. 92. 
Hands, by foreign, 296. 

fatal, 178. 

folding of the, 552. 

from picking and stealing, 579. 

hateth nicer, 10. 

knell is rung by fairy, 339. 

promiscuously applied, 477. 

shake, with a king, 529. 

then take, 17. 

wings or feet, 179. 
Hand-saw, hawk from a, 109. 
Handsome, everything, about 
him, 28. 

in three hundred pounds, 21. 
Hang a calfs-skin, 50. 

a doubt on, 129. 

out our banners, 98. 

sorrow, 151. 

the pensive head, 200. 

upon his pent-house, 88. 
Hanging in a golden chain, 179. 

the worst use man could be 
put to, 141. 
Hangman's whip, 387. 
Hangs on Dian's temple, 75. 

on princes' favours, 72. 
Hannibal a pretty fellow, 256. 
Hapless love, 319. 
Happier in the passion we feel, 
494. 

than I know, 187. 
Happiness, domestic, 362. 

glimpse of, 209. 

of the greatest number, 596. 

our being's end, 274. 

produced by a good inn, 321. 



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673 



Happiness that makes the heart 
afraid, 507. 

througli another's eyes, 43. 

too familiar, 420. 

too swiftly flies, 329. 

virtue alone is, 275. 

was born a twin, 487. 

we prize, if solid, 315. 
Happy boy at Drury's, 509. 

could I be with either, 301. 

he with such a mother, 521. 

hills pleasing shades, 328. 

if I could say how much, 26. 

is he boru and taught, 141. 

is the man, 551. 

mixtures of more happy days, 
484. 

soul that all the way, 163. 

the man, 227. 

walks and shades, 190. 

who in his verse, 226. 
Harass the distrest, 318. 
Harbinger, ^Dring-time's, 150. 
Harbingers to heaven, 16S, 209. 
Hard crab tree, 214. 

it is to climb, 359. 

to part, 378. 
Hare, to start a, 55. 
Hark from the tombs, 255. 

hark ! the lark, 132. 

they whisper, 295. 
Harm, win us to our, 88. 
Harmless as doves, 567. 
Harmonies, concerted, 505. 
Harmonious numbers, 179. 
Harmoniously confus'd, 294. 
Harmon}'', heaven drowsy with, 31. 

heavenly, 227. 

in her bright eye, 161. 

in immortal souls, 38. 

not understood, 271. 

of shape, 242. 

of the universe, 353. 

of the world, 16. 

soul of, 202. 

to harmony, 227. 
Harness, dead in his, 566. 

girdeth on his, 543. 

on our back, 99. 
Haroun Alraschid, 517. 
Harp of a thousand strings, 255. 

of life, 518. 

of Orpheus, 207. 

open palm upon his, 534. 

through Tara's halls, 453. 
Harper, but as a, 534. 
Harping on my daughter, 108. 
Harps upon the willows, 551. 
Harpy-footed Furies, 176. 
Harrow up thy soul, 106. 

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Harry the King, 64. 

with his beaver on, 58. 
Harsh and crabbed, 197. 
Hart panteth after the water 
brooks, 548. 

ungalled play, 114. 
Harvest of a quiet eye, 418. 

of the new-mown hay, 248. 

truly is plenteous, 567. 
Harvest-time of love, 426. 
Has been and may be, 411. 
Hast any philosophy in thee, 42. 

thou a charm, 433. 
Haste, married in, 256. 

mounting in hot, 471. 

now to my setting, 72. 

thee, nymph, 201. 

to be rich, 557. 

with moderate, 103. 
Hasten to be drunk, 224. 
Hastening ills, 344. 
Hat not the worse for wear, 36S. 

three-cornered, 535. 
Hate, immortal, 170. 

in like extreme, 299. 

of those below, 471. 

unrelenting, 227. 
Hated, as to be, 273. 

with a hate, 4S9. 
Hater, a good, 322. 
Hath he not always treasures, 435. 
Hating David, 222. 

no one, loved but her, 475. 
Hatred, love turned to, 256. 
Haud the wretch in order, 387. 
Haughtiness of soul, 250. 
Haughty spirit before a fall, 554. 
Haunt, exempt from public, 39. 
Haunted holy ground, 470. 

me like a passion, 406. 
Haunts in dale, 436. 
Have and to hold, 579. 

been blest, 478. 
Havens, ports and happy, 52. 
Havock, cry, 85. 
Hawk from a hand-saw, 109. 
Hawks, between two, 65. 
Hawthorn bush with seats, 344. 

under the, 201. 
Hay, harvest of the new-mown, 

248. 
Hazard of concealing, 387. 

of the die, 71. 
He best can paint them, 294. 

comes too near, 146, 303. 

cometh unto you, 14. 

coude songes make, 1. 

for God only, 181. 

must needs go, 45. 

saw her charming, 309. 

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674 



Index. 



He that is down, 215, 231. 

that is roLbed, 129. 
Head and front of, 123. 

crotchets in thy, 21. 

fantastically carved, 61. 

hairs of your, numbered, 567. 

hands wings, 179. 

hang the pensive, 200. 

hoary, crown of glory, 554. 

imperfections on my, 107. 

is net more native, 101. 

is sick and the heart faint, 561. 

lodgings in a, 213. 

off with his, 69, 248. 

one smr.ll, 346. 

plays round the, 274. 

precious jewel in his, 39. 

repairs his drooping, 200. 

some less majestic, 475. 

that wears a crown, 61. 

to be let unfurnished, 213. 

to contrive, 358. 

to shrowd his, 164. 

uneasy lies the, 61. 
Heads do grow beneath their 
shoulders, 124. 

hide their diminished, 180. 

houseless, 120. 

sometimes so little, 209. 

tall men had empty, 137. 

touch heaven, 124. 
Head-stone of the corner, 550. 
Headstrong as an allegory, 382. 
Healing in his wings, 565. 
Health and competence, 274. 

spirit of, 105. 

unbought, 224. 
Heap of dust. 296. 
Heapeth up riches, 548. 
Heaps of pearl, 69. 

unsunned, 196. 
Hear by tale or history, 32. 

me for my cause, 85. 

to see to feel, 469. 
Heard it said full oft, 134. 

melodies are sweet, 498. 

the world around, 204. 
Hearing ear the seeing eye, 555. 

of the ear, 546. 
Hearings, younger, 30. 
Hearse, sable, 145. 
Heart a transport know, 324. 

abundance of the, 567. 

afraid, that makes the, 507. 

after his own, 542. 

and lute, 391. 

arrow for the, 491. 

as he thinketh in his, 555. 

be troubled, let not your, 571. 

beating of my, 500. 



Heart, beatings of hiy, 406. 
can know, ease the, 372. 
comes not to the, 274. 
detector of the, 263. 
detests him, 298. 
did break, some, 521. 
distrusting asks, 346. 
doth ache, 231. 
ease of, herlookconveyed, 384. 
fail thee, if thy, 13. 
faint, ne'er won fair lady, 605. 
faint, whole, 561. 
felt along tlu, 406. 
for every fate, 483. 
for falsehood framed, 383. 
gently upon my, 534. 
give lesson to the head, 365. 
give me back my, 467. 
glows in every, 266. 
grieve his, 96. 
grow fonder, 502. 
has learned to glow, 299. 
hath 'scaped this Sorrow, 135. 
if guilt 's in that, 456. 
in concord beats, 402. 
in her husband's, 46. 
in thy hand, 18. 
is firm as a stone, 546. 
is wax to be moulded, 9. 
knock at my ribs, 89. 
knoweth his own bitterness, 

553- 

lord of the lion, 340. 

many a feeling, 434. 

merry, goes all trie day, 48. 

more native to the, 101. 

moved more than with a trum- 
pet, 14. 

music in my, 411. 

must have to cherish, 534. 

naked human, 263. 

never melt into his, 409. 

new-opened, 72. 

of a maiden is stolen, 455. 

of courtesy, 14. 

of heart, in my, 113. 

of my mystery, 114. 

of nature roiled, 527, 

on her lips, 484. 

over-fraught, 97. 

rends thy constant, 348. 

responds unto his own, 531, 

rise in the. 521. 

riven with vain endeavour, 
411. 

rotten at the, 36. 

seeth with the, 436. 

set my poor, free, 25. 

sick, maketh the, 553. 

sleeps on his own, 418. 



Index. 



675 



Heart that lias truly loved, 455. 
that 's broken, 450. 
that is soonest awake, 454. 
that visit my sad, 84. 
that was humble, 458. 
to conceive, 358. 
to eate thy, 12. 
to heart and mind to mind, 

445- 

to resolve, 358. 

true as steel, 33. 

untainted, 65. 

untravell'd, 342. 

upon my sleeve, 123. 

war was in his, 548. 

was one of those which most 
enamour us, 484. 

weed's plain, 539. 
Heart, weighs upon the, 98. 

which others bleed for, 256. 

will break, 471. 

within him burned, 445. 

would fain deny, 97. 

wring your, 115. 
Heart's core. 113. 

supreme ambition, 324. 
Heart-ache, end the, no. 
Hearth, cricket on the, 203. 
Hearts beat high and warm, 528. 

bring your wounded, 458. 

cherish those, that hate thee, 
7.3- 

dry as summer's dust, 422. 

fashioneth their, 547. 

feeling, 399. 

in love use their own tongues, 

25. 

lie withered, 455. 

of his countrymen, 393. 

of kings, enthroned in the, 

37- 

our hopes with thee, 533. 

steal away your, 85. 

that once beat high, 453. 

that the world had tried, 453. 

though stout and brave, 530. 

to live in, we leave behind, 
443- . 

unto wisdom, 550. 

well may your, believe, 339. 
Heart-stain, carried a, 459. 
Heart-strings, my dear, 128. 
Heart-throbs, count time by, 516. 
Heat for the cold, 9. 

of the day, 553. 
Heat-oppressed brain, 92. 
Heath-flower, from the, dashed 

the dew, 448. 
Heaven a time ordains, 205. 

airs from, 105. 



Heaven, all that we believe of, 236. 
and happy constellation*, 188. 
around us, 456. 
beauteous eye of, 51. 
before high, 23. 
better to serve in, 171. 
cannot heal, 458. 
care in, is there, n. 
commences, 344. 
cope of, 184. 
dear to, 197. 
doth with us as we with torches 

do, 22. 
drowsy with harmony, 31. 
eye of, visits, 52. 
face of, so fine, 79. 
fell from, 173. 
fingers point to, 424. 
first taught letters, 293. 
first-born, offspring of, 179. 
floor of, 38. 

from all creatures hides, 269. 
from, it came, 426. 
further off from, 507. 
gentle rain from, 37. 
gives its favourites, 474. 
God alone to be seen in, 483. 
great eye of, 10. 
had made her such a man, 125. 
has no rage, 256. 
has willed, 503. 
hath a summer's day, 163. 
he cried, 439. 
he gained from, 335. 
heads touch, 124. 
heard no more in, 185. 
hell I suffer, seems a, 181. 
her starry train, 183. 
his blessed part to, 73. 
how long or short permit to, 

191. 
husbandry in, 91. 
in her eye, 187. 
in hope to merit, 468. 
invites hell threatens, 262. 
is love, 444. 

is not always angry, 239. 
itself that points out, 251. 
kindred points of, 407. 
leave her to, 107. 
lies about us, 421. 
light from, 47S. 
like the path to, 196. 
more things in, 107. 
nothing true but, 458. 
of hell, 171. 
of invention, 62. 
on earth, 181. 
opened wide, 186. 
points out an hereafter, 251. 



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Index. 



Heaven, prayer ardent opens, 266. 

remedies we ascribe to, 45. 

report they bore to, 262. 

serene of, 426. 

smells to, 114. 

so much of, 405. 

soul white as, 149. 

stole the livery of, 501. 

the self-same, that frowns, 71. 

thorny way to, 103. 

to be young was very, 425. 

to gaudy day denies, 481. 

tries our virtue by affliction, 

tries the earth, 539. [337. 

upon the past has power, 227. 

verge of, 263. 

virtue under, 288. 

was all tranquillity, 453. 

were not heaven, 157. 

will bless your store, 372. 

winds of, visit her face, 101. 

would stoop to her, 198. 

yon blue, 517. 
Heaven's best treasures, 335. 

breath smells wooingly, 90. 

cherubin hcrs'd, 91. 

ebon vault, 493. 

eternal year is thine, 226. 

gate, the lark at, 132. 

last best gift, 184. 

lights, godfathers of, 29. 

pavement, riches of, 173. 

Sovereign saves, 263. 

sweetest fair, 135. 

wide palhless way, 203. 
Heaven-born band, 428. 
Heaven-directed to the poor, 277. 
Heaven-eyed creature, 421. 
Heaven-kissing hill, 115. 
Heavenly blessings without num- 
ber, 255. 

days that cannot die, 404. 

eloquence and fit words, 223. 

hope is all serene, 461. 

maid, Music, was young, 330. 
Heavens blaze forth the death of 
princes, 84. 

declare the glory, 547. 

hung be the, with black, 65. 
Heaven-taught lyre, 324. 
Heaviest battalions, 589. 
Hebrew knelt in the dying light, 

509- 
Hecuba to him, no. 
Hedgehogs dressed in lace, 536. 
Heed lest he fall, 574. 
Heel of the courtier, 118. 
Heels, detraction at your, 47. 

of pleasure, treads upon the, 
256. 



Height of this great argument, 170. 

in an airy, 242. 
Heightens ease with grace, 310. 
Heir of all the ages, 519. 

of fame, 204. 
Heirs of truth, 419. 
Helen, like another, 221. 
Helen's beauty in a brow of 

. Egypt, 34. 
Helicon's harmonious springs, 

3^9- 
Hell a fury like a woman scorned, 
256. 

all places shall be, 15. 

better to reign in, 171. 

blasts from, 105. 

breathes contagion, 114. 

broke loose, 184. 

feeling, beholding heaven, 
452. 

for hoarding went to, 67. 

from beneath is moved, 562. 

full of good meanings, 156. 

grew darker, 178. 

I suffer seems a heaven, 181. 

injured lover's, 185. 

it is in suing long to bide, 12. 

making earth a, 468. 

of heaven, 171. 

of waters, 474. 

of witchcraft, 135. 

riches that grow in, 173. 

terrible as, 177. 

threatens, 262. 

to ears polite, 279. 

to quick bosoms, 471. 

trembled at th# hideous name, 
178. 

way out of, 175. 

which way I fly is, 181. 

within him, 180. 
Hell's concave, tore, 172. 
Helm, nodded at the, 292. 

pleasure at the, 331. 
Helmet now shall make, 140. 
Help and hindrance, 403. 

his ready, was ever nigh, 318. 

me Cassius, 82. 

of man, vain is the, 548. 

thyself and God will help 

thee, 156. 

Helper, our antagonist is our, 354. 

Hen gathereth her chickens, 569. 

Hence all you vain delights, 148. 

babbling dreams, 249. 

horrible shadow, 95. 

ye profane, 167. 
Hen-pecked you all, 486. 
Heraclitus would not laugh, 4:5. 
Herald Mercury, 115. 



Index. 



677 



Herald of joy, perfectest, 26. 

no other, after my death, 74. 
Herald's coat without sleeves, 58 
Heraldry, boast of, 332. 
Herbs and country messes, 201. 
Hercules do what he may, 119. 

than I to, 102. 
Here a little and there a little, 563. 

I and sorrows sit, 49. 

in the body pent. 43S. 

's to the maiden, 383. 

lies a truly honest man, 163. 

lies our sovereign, 234. 

nor there, 130. 

rests his head, 335. 

shall thy proud waves be 
stayed, 545- 

Skugg lies snug, 316. 
Hereditary bondsmen, 469. 
Heritage of woe, 481. 

the sea. 453. 
Hermit. Man the, sighed, 439. 

to dwell a weeping. 339. 
Hermitage, take that for an, 161. 
Hero and the man complete, 252. 

conquering, comes, 237. 

must drink brandy. 321. 

perish or sparrow fall, 269. 

to his valet, 595. 
Herod, out-herods, 112. 
Heroic deed, knightly counsel and, 
395- 

stoic Cato, 490. 
Herte, priketh every geutil, 3. 
Hesitate dislike, 286 
Hesperus that led, 182. 
Hey-day in the blood, 115. 
Hie jacet two narrow words, 13. 

its forlorn, 411. 
Hidden soul of harmony, 202. 
Hide her shame, 349. 

the fault I see, 295. 

their diminish'd heads, 180. 

those hills of snow, 25. 

your diminish'd rays, 279. 
Hides a dark soul, 196. 

a shining face, 359. 

from himself his state, 317. 
Hierophants, poets are the, 441. 
Hies to his confine, 100 
High ambition lowly laid, 444. 

and low, death makes equal 
the, 140. 

and palmy state, 100. 

characters are drawn from 
high life, 276. 

erected thoughts, 14. 

instincts, 422. 

mountains are a feeling, 472. 

on a throne of royal state, 173. 



High over-arch' d imbower, 171. 

Thinking, plain living, 413. 
High-born HoePs harp, 330. 
Higher law, 515. 
Highest, pepper'd the, 348. 
Highly fed, 45. 

what thou wouldst, 89. 
Highness's dog at Kew, 294. 
Hill apart, sat on a, 176. 

cot beside the, 399. 

'custom'd, 334. 

heaven-kissing, 115. 

so down thy, 398. 

that skirts the down, 359. 

went up a, and so came down 
agen, 150. 

wind-beaten, 442. 

yon high eastern, 101. 
Hills and valleys dales and fields, 

of snow, hide those, 25. 

over the, and far away, 301. 

peep o'er hills, 280. 

strong amid the, 500. 
Hillside, conduct ye to a, 207. 
Him of the western dome, 223. 

that hath not, 569. 
Himself his Maker and the angel 

Death, 435. 
Hind mated by the lion, 45. 
Hinders needle and thread, 507. 
Hindrance and a help, 493. 
Hinge nor loop, 129. 
Hinges, golden, moving, 186. 

grate harsh thunder, 178. 

of the knee, 113. 
Hint a fault, 286. 

to speak, it was my, 124. 

upon this, I spake, 125. 
Hip, I have thee on the. 37. 
Hire, labourer worthy of his, 570. 
His time is forever, 166. 
Histories make men wise, 137. 
History, anything but. 253. 

ever hear by tale or. 32. 

is philosophy teaching by ex- 
amples, 258. 

in a nation's eyes, 334. 

must be false, 253. 

portance in my travel's, 124. 

register of crimes, 358. 

strange eventful, 42. 
Hit, palpable, 119. 
Hitches in a rhyme, 288. 
Hitherto shalt thou come, 545. 
Hive for bees, 140. 
Hoard of maxims preaching, 518. 
Hoarding, went to hell, 67. 
Hoarse rough verse, 282. 
Hoary head is a crown, 554. 



678 



Index. 



Hobbes clearly proves, 245. 
Hobby-horse is forgot, 113. 
Hobson's choice, 591. 
Hocus-pocus science, 304. 
Hoel's harp, 330. 
Hog in Epicurus' sty, 350. 
Hoist with his own petar, 116. 
Hold a candle, 305. 

enough, 99. 

fast that which is good, 576. 

high converse, 310. 

his peace, hereafter, 579. 

makes nice of no vile, 50. 

the mirror up to nature, 112. 

thou the good, 522. 
Hole, Caesar might stop a, 118. 

in a' your coats, 386. 

poisoned rat in a, 247. 
Holes where eyes did once in- 
habit, 69. 
Holiday-rejoicing spirit, 429. 
Holidays, if all the year were, 54. 
Holiest thing alive, 433. 
Holily, that wouldst thou, 89. 
Hollaing and singing, 60. 
Hollow and false, 174. 

blasts of wind, 301. 

murmurs died away, 339. 

oak our palace is, 459. 
Holy angels guard thy bed, 255. 

ground, call it, 497. 

haunted ground, 470. 

text around she strews, 334. 

time is quiet as a Nun, 409. 

writ, proofs of, 128. 

writ, stol'n out of, 69. 
Homage, all things do her, 16. 

vice pays to virtue, 210. 
Home, best country ever is at, 342. 

dear hut our, 315. 

draw near their eternal, 168. 

homely features to keep, 198. 

is home, 500. 

is on the deep, 441. 

man goeth to his long, 560. 

next way, 154. 

no place like, 500. 

of the brave, 491. 

out of house and, 60. 

sweet home, 500. 

to men's business and bosoms, 
136. 
Home-bound fancy, 515. 
Home-keeping youth, 19. 
Homeless near a thousand homes, 

401. 
Homer all the books you need, 235. 

living begged his bread, 164. 

seven cities warr'd for, 164. 
Homer's rule the best, 288. 



Homes, forced from their, 343. 

near a thousand. 401. 

of silent prayer, 522. 
Honest and true, 390. 

labour bears, 165. 

man 's aboon his might, 389. 

man 's the noblest work, 274. 

tale speeds best, 70. 
Honesty, armed so strong in, 87. 

is the best policy, 606. 

manhood nor good fellows hip, 

54- 
Honey-dew, hath fed on, 434. 
Honied showers, 200. 
Honour and shame, 274. 

bed of, 215, 258. 

books of, 134. 

but an empty bubble, 221. 

chastity of, 353. 

clear in, 279. 

depths and shoals of, 72. 

from corruption, 74. 

grip, feel your, 387. 

hurt that, feels, 519. 

is a mere scutcheon, 59. 

's at the stake, 116. 

'3 lodged, place where, 2:7. 

is the subject, 82. 

jealous in, 41. 

love obedience, 97. 

loved I not, more, 161. 

more hurts, 218. 

new-made, 49. 

no skill in surgery, 59. 

our sacred, 376. 

pluck up drowned, 55. 

post of, 251. 

pricks me on, 59. 

prophet not without, 568. 

set to a leg, 59. 

she what was, knew, i c 8. 

the King, fear God, 577. 

there all the, lies, 274. 

to pluck bright, 55. 

what is that word, 59. 
Honour's truckle-bed, 215. 
Honourable men. these w r ere. 566. 
Honoured in the breach, 104. 
Honours, to the world his, 73. 

his blushing, 72. 
Hood, him that wears a, 9. 
Hooded clouds like friars, 53T. 
Hoofs of a swinish multitude, 354. 
Hook or crook, n, 603. 
Hookas, divine in, 485. 
Hooks of steel, 103. 
Hooting at the glorious sun, 432. 
Hope against hope, 572. 

break it to our, 99. 

deferred, 553. 



Index. 



6/9 



Hope, earthly, 461. 
elevates, 1S9. 
faith and, 274. 
farewell fear, 1S1. _ 
final, is flat despair, 174. 
fooled wich, 229. 
for a season bade farewell, 

frustrate of his, 207. 

heavenly, is all serene, 461. 

is brightest, 449. 

is but the dream, 241. 

is there no, 302. 

light of, 440. 

like the gleaming taper, 349. 

never comes, 170. 

never to, again, 72. 

no other medicine but only, 23. 

none without, 324. _ 

nurse of young desire, 357. 

of all who suffer, 525. 

of many nations, 475. 

phantoms of, 320. 

springs eternal, 270. 

still relies on, 349. 

tender leaves of, 72. 

the charmer, 439. 

this pleasing, 251. 

to feed on, 12. 

to merit heaven, 468. 

to the end, 577. 

to write well, 207. 

told a flattering tale, 497. 

true, is swift, 70. 

while there 's life there 's, 302. 

white-handed, 195. 

withering fled, 480. 
Hope's perpetual breath, 413. 
Hopeless anguish, 318. 

fancy feigned, 521. 
Hopes belied our fears, 506. 

crawling upon my startled, 
248. 

laid waste, 505. 

like tow'ring falcons, 242. 

my fondest, decay, 452. 

of future years, 533. 

stirred up with high, 207. 
Horatio thou art e'en as just a 

man, 112. 
Horatius kept the bridge, 5x1. 
Horn, blast of that dread, 447. 

his wreathed, 410. 

lends his pagan, 291. 

voice of that wild, 447. 
Horrible discord, 186. 

imaginings, 89. 
Horrid grind, 538. 
Horror, inward, 251. 

nodding, 194. 



Horror of his folded tail, 204. 
Horrors accumulate on horror's 
head, 129. 

supped full with, 98. 
Horse, dearerthan his, 51S. 

gray mare the better, 6o5. 

my kingdom for a, 71. 

scarce would movo a,- 366. 

something in a hying, 409. 

which is now a, 132. 
Horseback, sits on his, 49. 
Horse-leech hath two daughters, 

557- . 
Horsemanship, witch the world 

with noble, 58. 
Horses, between two, 65. 
Hose a world too wide, 41. 
Hospitable thoughts intent, 185. 
Host of the Garter, 20. 

that led the starry, 182. 

universal, up sent a shout, 17 j. 
Hostages to fortune, 136. 
Hot and rebellious liquors, 40. 

cold, moist, 17C. _ 

haste, mounting in, 471. 
Hound or spaniel, 121. 
Hour before the worshipped sun, 

7 6 ' . 
bounties of an, 261. 
by Shrewsbury clock, 59. 
catch the transient, 318. 
friendliest to sleep, 1S5. 
I have had my, 227. 
inevitable, 332. 
lives its little, 514. 
may lay it in the dust, . 
now 's the, 333. 

for a single, 412. 
of glorious life, 450. 

of virtuous liberty, 251. 

self-approving, 274. 

some wee short, 389. 

time and the, 89. 

to hour we ripe and ripe, 40. 

torturing, call us to penance, 
174. 

upon the stage, 99. 

watch the, 484. 

when lovers' vows, 481. 

with beauty's chain, 458. 

wonder of an, 469. 

wraps the present, 337. 
Houris, lying with, 336. 
Hour's talk withal, 29. 
Hours be set apart for business, 
.314. 

circling, waked by the, 186. 

1 once enjoyed, 36S. 
of bliss, winged. 440. 

of ease, woman in our, 447. 



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Index. 



Hours unheeded flew, 438. 

wise to talk with our past, 262. 
House and home, out of, 60. 

arrow o'er the, 119. 

be divided against itself, 569. 

daughters of my father's, 47. 

for all living, 545. 

his castle, 8. 

ill spirit so fair a, 18. 

little pleasure in the, 372. 

lowered upon our, 68. 

mansions in my Father's, 572. 

moat defensive to a, 52. 

nae luck about the, 372. 

of mourning, 558. 

of my friends, 565. 

of Pindarus, 205. 

of prayer, 240, 612. 

prop of my, 38. 

set thine, in order, 563. 

to be let for life, 154. 

to lodge a friend, 245. 
Household words, 64. 
Houseless heads, 120. 
Houses fer asondcr, 2. 

plague o' both your, 79. 

seem asleep, 410. 

thick and sewers annoy, 189. 
Housewife that 's thrifty, 383. 
How are the mighty fallen, 542. 

art thou fallen, 562. 

blest is he, 344. 

divine a thing, 408. 

few themselves in that just 
mirror see, 265. 

he wi:l talk, 237. 

I pities them, 428. 

it talked, 237. 

light a cause, 453. 

loved how honoured, 296. 

not to do it, 538. 

small a part of time, 168. 

small of all that human hearts 
endure, 319. 

the devil they got there, 286. 

the style refines, 282. 
Howards, blood of all the, 274. 
Howl and hiss, 474. 
Howls along the sky, 340. 
Hub of the solar system, 537. 
Hue, love's proper, 188. 
of resolution, in. 
unto the rainbow, 50. 
Hues of bliss, 335. 
Hugged by the old, 508. 

the offender, 224. 
Hum, hideous, 204. 

of either army sounds, 63. 
of human cities, 472. 
of men, 201. 



Hum of mighty workings, 499. 
Human creatures' lives, 507. 

events, course cf, 376. 

face divine, 179. 

nature's daily fcod, 404. 

race, forget the, 475. 

soul take wing, 482. 

spark is left, 293. 

to err is, 2S3. 

to step aside is, 386. 
Humanities of old religion, 436. 
Humanity, imitated, 112. 

music of, 406. 

suffering sad, 533. 

wearisome condition of, 14. 

with all its fears, 533. 
Humankind, clay of, 230. 

lords of, 343. 
Humble cares and delicate fears, 
401. 

grave adorned, 296. 

heart that was, 458. 

livers in content, 71. 

Port to imperial Tokay, 338. 

tranquil spirit, 165. 
Humbleness, whispering, 36. 
Humility and modest stillness, 

63. 

pride that apes, 427, 432. 
Humour, career of his, 26. 

of it, 20. 

woman in this, won, 68. 
Humourous sadness, 43. 
Humours turn with climes, 276. 
Huncamunca's eyes, 314. 
Hundred, might tell a, 103. 
Hung be the heavens, 65. 

over her enamour'd, 184. 
Hunger, obliged by, 286. 
Hungry as the grave, 309. 

lean-faced, 25. 

lion give a grievous roar. 313. 
Hunt for a forgotten dream, 406. 
Hunter and the deer a shade, 440. 

mighty, and his prey was man, 

Hunting the Devil designed, 225. 
Hunts in dreams, 518. 
Huntsman his pack, 348. 
Hurly-burly 's done, 88. 
Hurrying through the lawn, 521. 
Hurt cannot be much, 79. 

of the inside, 214. 

that honour feels, 519. 

to his own, 546. 
Hurtles in the darkened air, 332. 
Husband cools, 278. 

lover in the, 324. 

truant, should return, 486. 

woman oweth to her, 44 



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68 1 



Husband's eye, looks lovely in 

her, 400. 
Husbandry, edge of, 104. 

in heaven, 91. 
Hush my dear lie still, 255. 
Hushed be every thought, 420. 

in grim repose, 331. 
Hut, he made him a, 340. 

our home, 315. 
Hyacinthine locks, 1S1. 
Hyperion to a satyr, 101 
Hyperion's curls, 115. 
Hypocrisy sort of homage, 210. 
Hyrcan tiger, 95. 

I can fly or I can run, 198. 

love it I love it, 537. 
Ice, be thou chaste as, 111. 

in June, 466. 

motionless as, 411. 

starve in, 177. 

thick-ribbed, 24. 

to smooth the, 50. 
Icicle, chaste as the, 75. 
Icy hands of death, 160. 
Idea of her life, 28. 

teach the young, 308. 
Ideas, man of nastv, 247. 
Tdes of March, 82.' 
Idiot, tale told by an, 99. 
Idle as a painted ship, 430. 

hands to do, 254. 

wind, pass by me as the, 87. 

wishes, in, 384. 

world calls, 362. 
Idleness, penalties of, 292. 

polished, 395. 
Idler, busy world an, 362. 

is a watch, 366. 
Idly spoken, that worn-out word, 

so, 505. 
Idolatry, god of my, 78. 
If all the world and love, 13. 

any speak, 85. 

forever still forever, 481. 

is the only peacemaker, 43. 

it were done, 90. 

much virtue in, 43. 

thy heart fail thee, 13. 
Ignorance, burst in, 105. 

is bliss, 329. 

is the mother of your devo- 
tion, 228. 

of wealth, 344. 

our comfort flows from, 243. 

sedate in, 317. 
Ignorant of what he 's most as- 
sured, 23. 
Ignorantly read, 283. 
Ilium, topless towers of, 15. 

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111, better made by, 400. 
blows the wind, 606. 
deeds done, 51. 
fares the land, 344. 
final goal of, 523. 
habits gather, 227. 
nothing, can dwell, 18. 
sovereign o'er transmuted, 

3i7- 

where no ill seems, 180. 

wind turns none to good, 606. 
Ill-favored thing, 43. 
Ills, bear those, we have, 111. 

of life victorious, 385. 

the scholar's life assail, 317. 

to come, 328. 

to hastening, a prey, 344. 

what mighty, 236. 
Illumed the eastern skies, 512. 
Illumine, what in me is dark, 170. 
Ill-used ghost, 307. 
Illusion, for man's, given, 458. 
Illustrious acts, 169. 

predecessor, 351. 

spark, 366. 
Image of God in ebony, 209. 

of Good Queen Bess, 508. 

twofold, we saw a. 425. 
I mages and precious thoughts, 424. 
Imaginary joys, 337. 
Imagination all compact, 33. 

bodies forth, 34. 

can, boast, 308. 

fair to fond, 412. 

for his facts, 3S4. 

of a feast, 52. 

study of, 28. 

sweeten my, 122. 

trace the noble dust, 118. 
Imaginations are as foul, 113. 
Imagined new, 318. 
Imaginings, horrible, 89. 
Imitated humanity, 112. 
Immemorial elms, 521. 
Immense pleasure to come. 338. 
Imminent deadly breach. 124. 
Immodest words, 232. 
Immoral thought, not one, 324. 
Immortal as they quote. 266. 

fire, spark of that. 478. 

hate and study of revenge, 
170. 

names, one of the few, 528, 

part, have lost the, 126. 

scandals fly, 2^0. 

sea, sight of that, 422. 

song, wanted one, 222. 

though no more, 469. 

verse, 202, 424. 

with a kiss, 15. 



682 



Index. 



Immortality, born for, 416. 

longing after, 251. 

quaff, and joy, 185. 
Immortals never appear alone,433 
Immovable infix'd, 177. 
Imparadised in one another's 

arms, 182. 
Impartial laws were given, 300. 
Impeachment, own the soft, 382. 
Impearls on every leaf, 186. 
Impediment, without, 70. 
Impediments, admit, 135. 

in fancy's course, 45. 

to grear enterprises, 136. 
Imperceptible water, 507. 
Imperfect offices of prayer, 422. 
Imperfections on my head. 107. 
Imperial Caesar dead, 118. 

ensign, full high advanced, 
172. 

fancy, 396. 

theme, swelling act of the, 89. 

Tokay, humble Port to, 338. 
Impious in a good man, 264. 

men bear sway, 251. 
Implied subjection, 182. 
Important day, the great the, 250. 
Importune, too proud to, 336. 
Impossible, because it is, 582. 

she, that not, 163. 

what 's, can't be, 392. 
Impotent conclusion, 126. 
Impoverished the public stock, 321. 
Impregns the clouds, 182. 
Imprison'd in the viewless winds, 
24. 

wranglers, set free the, 363. 
Improve each moment, 318. 

each shining hour, 254. 
Impulse from a vernal wood, 417. 
Inaction, disciplined, 395. 
Inactivity, masterly, 395. 
Inanimate, if aught, e'er grieves, 

471. 
Inaudible foot of time, 45. 
Incapable of stain, 174. 
Incarnadine, seas, 93. ^ 
Incarnation of fat dividends, 526. 
Incense-breathing morn, 332. 
Incensed with indignation, 177. 
Inch, every, a king, 122. 

he '11 take an ell, 605. 

that is not fool, 223. 
Incidis in Scyllam, 36. ( 
Incline, Desdemona seriously, 124. 
Income tears, her, 154. 
Incomparable oil Macassar, 485. 
Increase of appetite, 102. 
Increaseth knowledge, 558. 
Indemnity for the past, 323. 



Independence forever, 462. 

spirit, 340. 
Index-learning, 291. 
India's coral strand, 461. 
Indian, like the base, 131. 

lo ! the poor, 270. 

steep, on the, 195. 
Indignation, incensed with, 177. 
Indocti discant et ament, 283. 
Indus to the pole, 293. 
Inebriate, cheer but not, 363. 
Inestimable stone?, 69. 
! Inevitable hour, await the, 332. 
Infamous are fond of fame, 357. 
Infancy, heaven lies about us in 

our, 421. 
Infant crying for the light, 523. 

crying in the night, 523. 

mewling and puking, 41. 
Infants, canker galls the, 103. 
Infected, all seems, 283. 
Infection and the hand of war, 52. 
Infidel, I have thee, 37. 
Infidels adore, 284. 
Infinite in faculties, 109. 

riches in a little room, 16. 

wrath and despair, 181. 
Infirm of purpose, 93. 
Infirmities, bear his friend's, 87. 
Infirmity of noble mind, 199. 
Infix'd and frozen round, 177. 
Inflict, those who, 494. 
Influence, selectest, 188. 

unawed by, 461. 
Influences, skyey, 24. 
Information, know where we can 

find, 321. 
Infortune, worst kind of, 4. 
Inglorious arts of peace, 219. 

Milton, 333. 
Ingratitude, base, 198. 

unkind as man's, 42. 
Ingredient is a devil, 127. 
Ingredients of our poison'd chal- 
ice, 90. 
Inhabit this bleak world, 455 
Inhabitants, look not like, 88. 
Inherit, all which it, 18. 
Inhumanity to man, 388. 
Injured, forgiveness to the, 228. 

lover's hell, 185. 
Injury, insult to, 584. 
Ink, gall enough in thy, 47. 

small drop of, 488. 
Inn, gain the timely, 94. 

happiness produced by a 
good, 321. 

take mine ease in mine, 57. 

warmest welcome at an, 327. 
Innocence and health, 344. 



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68 3 



Innocence and mirth, 484. 
fearful, 413. 
her, a child, 226. 
oflove, dallies with the, 47. 
Innocent as gay, 263. 

sleep, 93. 
Innumerable as the stars, 1S6. 
bees, murmuring of, 521. 
Inordinate cup is unbless'd, 127. 
Insane root, 83. 
Insatiate archer, 261. 
Inscription upon my tomb, 443. 
Insects of the hour, 354. 
Inseparable, one and, 462. 
Inside, hurt of the, 214. 

of a church, 57. 
Insides, carrying three, 398. 
Insolence, flown with, 172. 

ofoffice, in. 
Insolent foe, taken by the, 124. 
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, 

385. 
Instant, rose both at an, 59. 
Instil a wanton sweetness, 310. 
Instinct, coward on, 56. 

with music, 403. 
Instincts, few strong, 413. 

unawares, 500. 
Instructions, bloody, 90. 
Instruments, mortal, 83. 

of darkness, 83. 

to plague us, 122. 

to scourge us, 122. 
Insubstantial pageant, 18. 
Insult to injury, 584. 
Insults unavenged, 423. 
Insurrection, nature of an, 84. 
Intellect, march of, 428. 
Intellectual, ladies, 486. 

power, 423. 
Intelligible forms, 436. 
Intent, sides of my, 91. 

working out a pure, 413. 
Intents wicked or charitable, 105. 
Intercourse of daily life, 407. 

speed the soft, 293. 
Interfused, more deeply, 407. 
Intimates eternity to man, 251. 
Intolerable deal of sack, 57. 

not to be endured, 44. 
Intuition, passionate, 424. 
Inurn'd, quietly, 105. 
Invention, heaven of, 62. 

necessity the mother of, 258. 

of the enemy, 249. 

torture his, 245. 
Inventions, sought out many, 559. 
Inventor, plague the, 90. 
Inverted year, ruler of the, 363. 
Inviolate sea, 517. 



-• Invisible soap, 507. 

spirit oi wine, 127. 

to thee, 500. 
j Invoked, though oft, 190. 
Inward and spiritual grace, 579. 

self-disparagement, 423. 
i Inwardly digest, 579. 
J Iona, ruins of, 321. 
I Iris, livelier, 518. 
Iron bars a cage, 161. 

did on the anvil cool, 51. 

entered into his soul, 5S0. 

hold out my, 62. 

is hot, strike while the, 610. 

meddles with cold, 214. 

scourge, 329. 

sharpeneth iron, 557. 

sleet of arrowy shower, 332. 

tears down Pluto's cheek, 203. 

tongue of midnight, 34. 

with a rod of, 578. 
Iron-bound bucket, 451. 
Irrepressible conflict, 515. 
Island, tight little, 429. 
Isle, frights the, 126. 

of Beauty fare thee well, 502. 

this sceptred, 52. 
Isles of Greece, 483. 

sailed for sunny, 509. 
Israel, mother in, 541. 

of the Lord, 450. 
Issues good or bad, 419. 
It is this, it is this, 453. 

might have been, 525. 

must be so, 251. 
were all one, 45. 
Itch of disputing, 142. 
Itching palm, 86. 
Iteration, damnable, 54. 
Ithuriel with his spear, 1S4. 
Ivy green, 538. 

Jack, banish plump, 56. 

shall pipe, 151. 

life of poor, 379. 
Jade, let the galled, wince, 113. 
Jail, patron and the, 317. 
Janus, two-headed, 34. 
Javan or Gadire, 193. 
Jaws of darkness, 32. 

ponderous and marble, 105. 
Jealous in honour, 41. 

not easily, 131. 
Jealousy, beware of, 128. 

full of artless, 117. 

injustice, 260. 

is cruel as the grave, 561. 

the injur'd lover's hell, 185. 
Jehu, like the driving of, 543. 
Jericho, tarry at, 542. 



684 



Index. 



Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 551. 

Jessamine, pale, 200. 

Jesses were my dear heart-strings, 

128. 
Jest and riddle of the world, 272. 

and youthful jollity, 201. 

be laughable, 34. 

bitter is a scornful, 318. 

fellow of infinite, 118. 

good, forever, 55. 

life is a, 303. 

whole wit in a, 148. 
Jest's prosperity lies in the ear, 31. 
Jests, indebted to his memory for 

his, 384. 
Jew, else an Ebrew, 56. 

hath not a, eyes, 36. 

I thank thee, 38. 

that Shakespeare drew, 299. 
Jewel, experience be a, 21. 

in an Ethiop's ear, -j-j. 

in his head, 39. 

my heavenly, 14. 

of the just, 2X1. 

of their souls, 127. 

rich in having such a, 19. 
Jewels five-words long, 520. 

in the carcanet, 135. 

into a garret, 137. 

unvalued. 69. 
Jews might kiss, 284. 
Jingling of the guinea, 519. 
Jocund day stands tiptoe, 80. 
John print it, some said, 231. 
Joint labourer with the day, 100. 

time is out of, 108. 
Joke, Dulness ever loves a, 291. 

many a, had he, 346. 

to cure the dumps, 246. 
Jolly miller, there was a, 357. 

place in times of old, 405. 

whistle, 3. 
Jonson's learned sock, 202. 
Jot of heart or hope, 206. 
Journeymen, Nature's, 112. 
Journeys end in lovers' meeting, 

46. 
Jove for his power to thunder, 75. 

laughs at lovers' perjuries, 78, 
225. 

like a painted, 224. 

some christen'd, 291. 

the front of, 115. 

young Phidias brought, 527. 
Jove's dread clamours, 129 
Joy ambition finds, such, 181. 

and bliss that poets feign, 67. 

and sorrow learn, 534. 

asks if this be, 346. 

be unconfined, 471. 



Joy brightens his crest, 189. 

current of domestic, 319. 

eternal, 236. 

forever dwells, 171. 

heartfelt, 274. 

how pure the, 395. 

is the sweet voice, 434. 

of the whole earth, 548. 

of youth, 384. 

rises in me, 435. 

shouted for, 545. 

smiles of, 458. 

snatch a fearful, 328. 

so seldom weaves a chain, 454. 

the luminous cloud, 434. 

the oil of, for mourning, 564. 

the perfectest herald of, 26. 

the world can'give, 483. 

thing of beauty is a, 498. 

turns at the touch of, 372. 

wear a face of, 418. 

which warriors feel, 449. 

who ne'er knew, 296. 

would win, 487. 
Joy's delicious springs, 468. 
Joyful school-days, 429. 
Joyous prime, 11. 

the birds, 188. 
Joys, Africa and golden, 62. 

departed, 307. 

faded like the morning dew, 

439- 
from our own selves must 

flow, 315. 
imaginary, 337. 
that came down shower-like, 

435- 
we dote upon, 238. 
Judge, amongst fools a, 367. 

not according to appearance, 

57i- 
Judge's robe, 23. 
Judges all ranged, 302. 

fool with, 367. 

hungry, 284. 
Judgment, a Daniel come to, 37. 

falls upon a man, 152. 

fled to brutish beasts, 85. 

green in, 131. 

hoodwink'd, surrender, 365. 

is weak the prejudice is 
strong, 304 

reserve thy. 104. 

shallow spirit of, 65. 
Judgments as our watches, 280. 
Judicious drank, 292. 

grieve, make the, 112. 
Juggling fiends, 99. 
Julia, lips of, 158. 
Julius, ere the mightiest, fell, 100. 



Index. 



685 



Jump the life to come, 90. 
June, leafy month of, 430. 

seek ice in, 466. 

what so rare as a day in, 539. 
Juno's eyes, lids of, 48. 

unrelenting hate, 227. 
Jupiter on Juno smiles, 182. 
Jurisprudence, light of, 8. 
Jury, passing on the prisoner's 

life, 22. 
Jurymen may dine, 284. 
Just, actions of the, 160. 

and mightie death, 13. 

are the ways of God, 193. 

as the twig is bent, 276. 

God forgive, 411. 

jewel of the, 211. 

less than sage, 453. 

memory of the, 552. 

men made perfect, 577. 

path of the, 552. 

remembrance of the, 580. 
Justice be thy plea, 37. 

course of, 37. 

even-handed, 90. 

in fair round belly, 41. 

mercy seasons, 37. 

of my quarrel, 66. 

poetic, 291. 

to all men, 376. 

unwhipped of, 120. 

with mercy, 190. 
Justifiable to men, 193. 
Justified of her children, 567. 
Justify the ways of God, 170. 

Katerfelto with hair on end, 363. 
Keep o' the windy side, 47. 

should, who can, 411. 

step to the music of the Union, 
508. 

the word of promise, 99. 

your powder dry, 591. 
Keeper, am I my brother's, 540. 
Kendal green, knaves in, 56. 
Kepen wel thy tongue, 4. 
Kept the faith, 576. 
Key that opes the palace of eter- 
nity, 194. 
Keys, clutch the golden, 523. 

of all the creeds, 522. 
Keystane o' night's black arch, 

385. 
Kibe, galls his, 118. 
Kick against the pricks, 572. 

in that place, 218. 

me down stairs, 391. 

that scarce would move a 
horse, 366. 

their owners over, 381. 



Kicked until they can feel, 216. 
Kickshaws, little tiny, 62. 
Kid, lie down with the, 562. 
Kidney, man of my, 21. 
Kill a sound divine, 366. 

the bloom, 403. 
Kin, little more than, 101. 

prohibited degrees of, 218. 

whole world, 74. 
Kind as kings, 224. 

cruel only to be, 116. 

deeds with coldness, 417. 

enjoy her while she 's, 227. 

hearts are more than coro- 
nets, 517. 

less than, 101. 

to her virtues, 241. 

to my remains, 226. 

wondrous, 338. 
Kindle soft desire, 221. 
Kindled by the master's spell, 399. 
Kindles false fires, 420. 

in clothes, 159. 
Kindlier hand, 524. 
Kindly fruits of the earth, 579. 
Kindness, greetings where no, is, 
407. 

milk of human, 89. 

save in the way of, 400. 
Kindred points of heaven, 407. 
King, an anointed, 53. 

Cambyses' vein, 56. 

conscience of the, no. 

contrary to the, 67. 

Cophetua loved, 77. 

doth hedge a, 117. 

every inch a, 122. 

God save the, 243. 

here lies our sovereign lord 
the, 234. 

himself has followed her, 350. 

mockery, of snow, 53. 

of day, powerful, 308. 

of England cannot enter, 323. 

of France with forty thousand 
men, 150. 

of good fellows, 65, 367. 

of shreds and patches, 116. 

of terrors, 544. 

state without a, 508. 

Stephen was a worthy peer, 
126. 

under which, 62. 
King's creation, 3-89. 

crown, nor the, 23. 

English, abusing the, 20. 

every subject's duty is the, 
64. m 

name is a tower of strength, 
70. 



686 



Index. 



Kingdom for a horse, 71. 

for a little grave, 53. 

like to a little, 84. _ 

my mind to me a, is, 598. 
Kingly line in Europe, 451. 
Kings are like stars, 493. 

come bow to it, 49. 

it makes gods, 70. 

may be blest, 385. 

right divine of, 292. 

royal throne of, 52. 

stories of the death of, 53. 

upon t»heir coronation, 225. 

will be tyrants from policy, 354. 
Kiss but in the cup, 144. 

immortal with a, 15. 

long long, 4S7. 

me and be quiet, 303. 

of youth and love, 487. 

one kind, 312. 

snatched hasty, 310. 

to every sedge, 19. 

traitorous, 495. 

with one long, 517. 
Kisses bring again, 24. 

from a female mouth, 484. 

remembered, 521. 

tears and smiles, 404. 

thinking their own, sin, 80. 
Kitchen bred, 481. 
Kith nor kin, 598. 
Kitten, I had rather be a, 57. 
Knave, how absolute the, is, 117. 

more, than fool, 16. 
Knaves in Kendal green, 56. 

such honest, 123. 

to flatter, 245. 

untaught, 55. 
Kneaded clod, 24. 
Knee, pregnant hinges of the, 113. 
Knees, bow stubborn, 115. 

down on your, 42. 

saint upon his, 369. 
Knell is rung, by fairy hands, 339. 

of parting day, 332. 

overpowering, 489. 

sound of a, 369. 

that summons thee, 92. 

the shroud, 264. 
Knells call heaven invites, 262. 

us back, each matin bell, 431. 
Knew by the smoke, 458. 

himself to sing, 199. 

thee but to love, 529. 

what 's what, 213. 
Knife is driven, 268. 

war even to the, 468. 
Knight, can make a belted, 389. 

parfit gentil, 1. 

prickir^ on the plain, 10. 



Knightly counsel, 395. 
Knights, accomplishing the, 64. 
Knights' bones are dust, 434. 
Knock and it shall be opened, 567. 

as you please, 297, 367. 

the breast, nothing to, 194. 

when you please, 367. 
Knock-down argument, 230. 
Knocker, tie up the, 285. 
Knolling a departed friend, 60. 
Knotted and combined locks, 106. 
Know a subject ourselves, 321. 

all words are faint, 379. 

her was to love her, 400. 

him no more, 544. 

how frail I am, 547. 

mine end, 547. 

not I ask not, 456. 

not what 's resisted, 386. 

or dream or fear, 528. 

that I love thee, 456. 

thee not, 379. 

their own good, 228. 

then thyself, 272. 

to, to esteem, 434. 

we loved in vain, 466. 

what we are, 117. 

where'er I go, 421. 

where we can find informa- 
tion, 321. 

ye the land, 478. 
Knowledge, book of, 179. 

diffused, 39c. 

he that hath, 554. 

he that ir.creaseth, 558. 

is of two kinds, 321. 

is ourselves to know, 276. 

is power, 137. 

man of, 137. 

manners adorn, 306. 

not according to, 572. 

shewelh, 547. 

sweetly uttered, 14. 

under difficulties, 504. 

we must snatch, 276. 

words without. 545. 
Known, to be forever, 166. 

too late, 77. 
Knows and knows no more, 366. 
Kosciusko fell, 439. 
Kubla Khan, 434. 

Labour and difficulty, 179. 
and intent study, 206. 
and to wait, 530. 
bears a lovely face, 165. 
ease and alternate, 308. 
for my travail, 74. 
in his vocation, 54. 
many still must, 480. 



Index. 



687 



Labour of love, 575. 

we delight in, 93. 

what to speak, 137. 

work under our, 189. 

youth of, 344. 
Labour's bath, sore, 93. 
Labour'd nothings, 281. 
Labourer is worthy of his hire, 570. 
Labourers are few, 567. 
Labouring man, sleep of a, 55S. 
Lace, hedgehogs dressed in, 536. 
Lack of argument, 63. 

of wit, plentiful, 10S. 
Lack'd and lost, 27. 
Lack-lustre eye, 40. 
Lad of mettle, a good boy, 56. 
Ladder, young ambition's 3 83. 
Ladies, a lion among, 33. 

be but young, 40. 

intellectual, 486. 

making cages, 247. 

whose bright eyes, 202. 
Lady doth protest, 113. 

is in the ca.e, 303. 

married to the Moor, 418. 

of the Mere, 403. 

protests too much, 113. 

so richly clad, 431. 

who lent his, 490. 
Ladyship, humorous, 50. 
Lady-smocks all silver white, 31. 
Lags the veteran, superfluous, 317 
Laid on with a trowel, 39. 
Lake or moorish fen, 196. 

wheredrooped the willow, 512. 
Lamb, dwell with the, 562. 

one dead, is there, 533. 

skin of an innocent, 66. 

the fro'.ic and the gentle, 421. 

to the slaughter, 563. 

L T na with her milk-white, 418. 

wind to the shorn, 326. 
Lame audi mpotent con elusion, 126. 

feet was I to the, 545. 
Lamely and unfashionable, 68. 
Lamp, smell of the, 583. 

so cheering, 456. 

that lighted the traveller, 455. 

unto my feet, 550. 
Lamps in sepulchral urns, 368. 

shone o"er fair women, 470. 
Land, bowels of the, 70. 

done for this delicious, 468. 

fight for such a, 446. 

flowing with milk, 541. 

ill fares the, 344. 

leans against the, 343. 

madden round the, 2S5. 

my own my native, 445. 

of bondage, 450. 



Land of brown heath, 446. 
of darkness, 544. 
of drowsyhed, 310. 
of lost gods, 470. 
of scholars, 343. 
of the free, 491. 
of the mountain, 446. 
they love their, 528. 
this delightful, 183. 
turrets of the, 533. 
where sorrow is unknown, 

369. 
where the cypress and mvrtle. 
.. 473. 
Landing on some silent shore, 244. 
Landlady and Tarn, 385. 
Landlord's laugh, 385. 
Landmark, ancient, 555. 
Land-rats and water-rats, 35. 
Lands, less happier, 52. 
though not of, 141. 
Landscape, darkened, 176. 

tire the view, 312. 
Language, nature's end of, 267. 
O that those lips had, 366. 
quaint and olden, 531. 
under the tropic is our, 16S. 
Languages, especially the dead, 
486. 
feast of, 31. 
Lank and brown, 425. 
Lap it in Elysium, 195. 
me in delight, 526. 
me in soft Lydian airs, 202. 
my mother's, 190. 
of earth, 335. 
of May, 342. 
of Thetis, 216. 
Lapland night, lovely as a, 40S. 
Lards the lean earth, 55. 
Large streams from little fountains 
flow, 393. 
was his bounty. 335. 
Lark at heaven's gate sings, 132. 
none but the, 132. 
rise with the, 392. 
Lash the rascals naked, 130. 
Last at his cross, 495. 

brightening to the, 344. 
link is broken, 495. 
love thyself, 73. 
not least in love, 84. 
of all the Romans, 87. 
reader reads no more, 535. 
rose of summer, 455. 
scene of all, 42. 
still loveliest, 473. 
syllable of recorded time, 98. 
to lay the old aside, 2S1. 
words of Marmion, 447. 



688 



Index. 



Late, better, than never, 7. 

known too, 77. 

into the night, 483. 
Lated traveller, 94. 
Later star of dawn, 403. 
Latin, small, and less Greek, 145. 

soft bastard, 484. 

was no more difficile, 212. 
Laud than gilt, 74. 
Laugh a siege to scorn, 98. 

at any mortal thing, 489. 

make the unskilful, 112. 

that I may not weep, 489. 

that spoke the vacant mind, 

345- 
th at win, they, 129. 

thee to scorn, 565. 

was ready chorus, 385. 

where we must, 269. 

who but must, 287. 

world's dread, 309. 
Laughed consumedly, 258. 

full well they, 346. 

his word to scorn, 366. 
Laughing devil in his sneer, 480. 

quaffing, 226. 

soil, paint the, 460. 

you hear that boy, 537. 
Laughs at lovers' perjury, 225. 

fair, the morn, 331. 
Laughter for a month, 55. 

holding both his sides, 201. 

of a fool, 558. 
Laura, grave where, lay, 13. 
Lavinia, she is, 75. 
Law and to the testimony, 562. 

ends where tyranny begins, 

323- 
fulfilling of the, 573. 
good opinion of the, 381. 
higher than the Constitution, 

• 5I5 ' 

is a sort of hocus-pocus sci- 
ence, 304. 
is good, 576. 
is open, 572. 

is perfection of reason, 233. 
life of the, 233. 
murder by the, 267. 
of the Medes and Persians, 

5 6 5- 
old father antic the, 54. 
order is heaven's first, 274. 
quillets of the, 65. 
rich men rule the, 343. 
seat of, is the bosom of God, 

16. 
seven hours to, 380. 
sovereign, sits empress, 380. 
truly kept the, 208. 



Law, we have a measure for, 152. 

what plea so tainted in, 36. 

which moulds a tear, 400. 

windy side of the, 47. 
Law's grave study, 380. 

delay, 111. 
Lawful for me to do what I will 

with mine own, 568. 
Lawn, saint in, 276. 
Laws, curse on all, 293. 

grind the poor, 343. 

of a nation, 236. 

of nature and of nature's God, 
376.. 

of servitude, 228. 

or kings can cause, 319. 
Lawyers are met, 302. 
Lay, go forth my simple, 380. 

her in the earth, 118. 

his weary bones, 73. 

on Macduff, 99. 

the old aside, 281. 
Le premier qui fut roi, 451. 
Lea, slowly o'er the, 332. 
Leads to bewilder, 359. 
Leaf, all do fade as a, 564. 

also shall not wither, 546. 

days are in the yellow, 485. 

falls with the, 147. 

not a, is lost, 472. 

of pity writ, 81. 

perished in the, 523. 

sear and yellow, 97. 

turn over a new, 611. 

upon the stream, 449. 

was darkish, 197. 
Leafy month of June, 430. 
Lean and hungry look, 83. 

and slipper'd Pantaloon, 41. 

body and visage, 221. 

fellow beats all conquerors, 

l6 5- 
Leaned to virtue's side, 345. 
Leap into this angry flood, 82. 

it were an easy, 55. 

look before you, 7, 217, 607. 
Leaps the live thunder, 472. 
Leapt to life a god, 499. 
Learn of the little nautilus, 273. 

to labour and to wait, 530. 

to read slow, 305. 
Learned and fair, 145. 

and wise, 414. 

Chaucer, 211. 

doctor's spite, 526. 

length, words of, 346. 

lumber, 283. 

reflect on what before they 
knew, 283. 

roast an egg, 290. 



Index. 



689 



Learned smile, 281. 
Learning hath gained most by 
books, 209. 

is an adjunct to ourself, 30. 

little, dangerous, 280. 

love he bore to, 346. 

progeny of, 382. 

scraps of, 266. 

study of, 207. 

whence is thy, 302. 

wiser for his, 152. 
Least of two evils, 609. 
Leather, faithless, 268. 

or prunello, 274. 

trod upon neat's, 82. 
Leave all meaner things, 269. 

her to heaven, 107. 

no stone unturned, 581. 

not a rack behind, 18. 

often took, 241. 

thee native soil, 190. 
Leaven, little, leaveneth, 573. 
Leaves, do cover with, 162. 

ending on the rustling, 203. 

have their time to fall, 496. 

of destiny, 163. 

of hope, 72. 

of memory, 534. 

on trees, like, 298. 

shatter your, 199. 

spread his sweet, 76. 

thick as autumnal, 171. 

words are like, 281. 
Leaving no tract behind, 81. 
Led by my hand, 292. 

the way to heaven, 300. 
Leer, assent with civil, 286. 
Lees, the mere, 93. 
Left blooming alone, 455. 

undone those things, 578. 
Leg, can honour set a, 59. 
Legion, my name is, 570. 
Legs of Time, 536. 

under his huge, 82. 
Leisure, repent at, 256. 

retired, 202. 
Lemonade, black eyes and, 459. 
Lend, lend your wings, 295. 
Lender nor borrower be, 104. 

servant to the, 555. 
Lendeth unto the Lord, 554. 
Lengthening chain. 342. 
Leopard change his spots, 564. 

lie down with the kid, 562. 
Lerne, gladly wolde he, 2. 
Less, beautifully, 242. 

beloved head, 475. 

happier lands, 52. 

of earth, 448. 

of two evils, 5, 609. 



Less pleasing when possest, 328. 

rather than be, 174. 

than archangel, 172. 

than kind, 101. 
Let, dearly, or let alone, 154. 

dogs delight, 254. 

fall the curtains, 363. 

him now speak, 579. 

in the foe, 193. 

Newton be, 290. 

not the heavens hear, 70. 

others hail the rising sun, 
338. 

the toast pass, 383. 

these describe, 474. 

those love now, 259. 

's be merry, 151. 

us do evil, 572. 

us do or die, 388, 607. 

us eat and drink, 562. 

's talk of graves, 53. 

us worship God, 390. 
Lethe wharf, 106. 
Letter, not the, but the spirit, 574. 

killeth, 574. 
Letters Cadmus gave, 488. 

Heaven first taught, 293. 
Letting I dare not, 91. 
Level, so sways she, 46. 
Lever han at his beddes hed, 2. 
Leviathan, draw out, 546. 
Lewd fellows, 572. 
Lexicography, lost in, 320. 
Lexicon of youth, 505. 
Liar, doubt truth to be a, 10S. 

of the first magnitude, 256. 
Liberal education, to love her 

was a, 249. 
Libertas et natale solum, 245. 
Libertie, delight with, n. 
Libertine, reckless, 103 

the air a chartered, 62. 
Liberty and union, 462. 

crust of bread and, 288. 

gave us, at the same time, 376. 

hour of virtuous, 251. 

how many crimes, 394. 

I must have withal, 41. 

is in every blow, 388. 

or death, give me, 375. 

spirit of, 352. 

tree of, 394. 

when they cry, 205, 
Liberty's unclouded blaze, 526. 

war, first touch of, 459. 
Library was dukedom, 17. 
License they mean, 205. 
Lick absurd pomp, 113. 

the dust, 549. 
Licks the dust, 287. 

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690 



Index. 



Licks the hand just raised, 269. 
Lids of Juno's eyes, 48. 
Lie at the proud foot, 51. 

bid Beaumont, a little further, 

. "45- 

circumstantiaJ, 43. 

close about his feet, 500. 

direct, 43. 

down in green pastures, 547. 

in cold obstruction, 24. 

nothing can need a, 155. 

oft in ourselves do, 45. 

still and slumber, 255. 

to credit his own, 17. 

what is a, after all, 490. 
Lief not be as live to be, 82. 
Liege of all loiterers, 30. 

we are men my, 94. 
Lies in daily life before us, 187. 

like truth, 99. 

to hide it, 254. 
Life a galling load, 388. 

at a pin's fee, 105. 

before us, lies in daily, 187. 

best portion of a good man's, 
406. 

beyond life, 208. 

blandishments of, 300. 

calamity of so long, no. 

care 's an enemy to, 46. 

charmed, I bear, 99. _ 

crowded hour of glorious, 450. 

crown of. 577. 

daily beauty in his, 130. 

death in the midst of, 580. 

dost thou love, 316. 

dregs of, 229. 

half so sweet in, 455. 

harp of, lcve took up the, 518. 

has passed roughly, 366. 

hath quicksands, 532. 

hath snares, 532. 

his, has flowed, 501. 

his, I 'in sure was right, 166. 

how pleasant in thy morning, 
388. 

in every limb, 401. 

in short measures, 144. 

intercourse of daily, 407. 

is a jest, 303. 

is a short summer, 318. 

is all a cheat, 229. 

is but a means, 516. 

is but a span, 600. 

is but a walking shadow, 99. 

is but an empty dream, 530. 

is in decrease, 265. 

is in the right, 273. 

is one demd horrid grind, 538. 

is thorny, 431. 



Life like a dome, 494. 
like following, 276. 
loathed worldly, 24. 
love of, 379. 
many-colour'd, 318. 
May of, 97. 
nor love thy, 191. 
nothing in his, 89. 
of care, 494. 
of his dull, 148. 
of man brutish and short, 151. 
of mortal breath, 533. 
of poor Jack, 379. 
of the building, 93. 
of the law, 233. 
protracted, 317. 
rounded with a sleep, 18. 
set upon a cast, 71. 
slits the thin-spun, 199. 
so dear or peace so sweet, 375. 
spent worthily, 516. 
staff of, 247. 
story of my, 124. 
sunset of, 441. 
sweat under a weary, in. 
tedious as a twice-told tale, 50. 
that dares send, 163. 
that, is long, 265. 
the idea of her, 28. 
tree of, 181. 

variety 's the spice of, 362. 
victorious, o'er all the ills o\ 

385. 
voyage of their, 87. 
walk of virtuous, 263. 
was gentle, 87. 
was in the right, 166. 
wave of, 506. 
way of, 97. 

we 've been long together, 378. 
web of our, 45. 
wheels of weary, 229. 
while there 's, there 's hope, 

302. 
who gave us, 376. 
whole of, to live, 437. 
wine of, 93. 

ye bear a sacred burden, 524. 
Life's common way, 413. 
dark road, 526. 
dull round, 327. 
enchanted cup, 470. 
fitful fever, 94. 
great end, 265. 
morning watch, 442. 
poor play is o'er, 273. 
tale, makes up, 434. 
vast ocean, 272. 
worst ills, 515. 
young day, 505. 



Index. 



691 



Life-blood of our enterprise, 58. 
Lift from earth, 478. 

her with care, 506. 

it bear it solemnly, 524. 

it up fatherly, 539. 
Lifts its awful form, 345. 
Light a cause, 453. 

a foot, 79. 

all was, 290. 

and sweetness, 246. 

as air, 128. 

burning and a shining, 571. 

children of, 570. 

dear as the, 331. 

dim religious, 203. 

ere it come to; 370. 

excess of, 330. 

fantastic toe, 201. 

feared the, 157. 

for after times, 427. 

form of life and, 478. 

from heaven, 38S, 478. 

gates of, 186. 

grave to, 226, 275. 

is sweet, truly the, 560. 

leads up to, 175. 

long-levell'd rule of stream- 
ing, 196. 

men of inward, 218. 

of a dark eye, 472. 

of Hope, 440. 

of jurisprudence, 8. 

of light beguile, 29. 

of love, 479. 

of other days, 457. 

of setting suns, 407. 

of the Maeonian star, 283. 

of the morning gild it, 463. 

of the world, 506. 

of things, into the, 417. 

of truth, 419. 

peerless, unveil'd her, 182. 

presence full of, 81. 

put out the, 130. 
♦ quivering aspen, 447. 

radiant, by her own, 196. 

remnant of uneasy, 412. 

seeking light, 29. 

swift-winged arrows of, 369. 

that led astray, 388. 

that lies in woman's eyes, 456. 

that never was on sea, 420. 

that visits these sad eyes, 331. 

through chinks, 168. 

to counterfeit a gloom, 203. 

to guide, 419. 

unto my path, 550. 

walk while ye have the, 571. 

which Heaven sheds, 456. 

windows that exclude the, 336. 



Light within his own breast, 196. 
Lightly draws its breath, 401. 

from fair to fair, 446. 
Lightning and the gale, 535. 

does the will of God, 492. 

in the collied night, 32. 

or in rain, 88. 

quick as, 217. 
Lights are fled, 457. 

as vain, 450. 

let your, be burning, 570. 

heaven's, 29. 

of mild philosophy, 250. 

that mislead the morn, 24. 

without a name, 157. 
Like angels' visits, 238, 440. 

but oh how different, 407. 

following life, 276. 

little mice, 157. _ 

not look upon his, 102. 

orient pearls, 380. 

seasoned timber, 155. 

some tall palm, 460. 

the best wine, 561. 

the dyer's hand, 135. 

the old age, 47. 

to a double cherry, 33. 
Likelihood, fellow of no, 57. 
Likewise, go and do thou, 570. 
Lilies, braids of, 198. 

of the field, consider the, 567. 
Lily, to paint the, 50. 
Limb, life in every, 401. 
Limbs, her gentle, 431. 

on those recreant, 50. 

whose trembling, 372. 
Lime-twigs of his spells, 197. 
Limit of becoming mirth, 29. 
Limits of a vulgar fate, 330. 
Line, creep in one dull, 281. 

full resounding, 289. 

he could wish to blot, 324. 

in the very first, 348. 

stretch out, 96. 

too labours, 282. 

upon line, 563. 

we carved not a, 499. 
Lineaments of gospel-books, 12. 
' Linen you 're wearing out, 507. 
Lines fallen unto me in pleasant 
places, 546. 

own the happy, 282. 

where beauty lingers, 477. 
J Lingering dew-drop, 420. 
Link, last, is broken, 495. 
Linked sweetness, 202. 

with one virtue, 480. 
Linnets, pipe but as the, 522. 
Lion among ladies, 33. 

beard the, in his den, 447. 



692 



Index. 



Lion, better than a dead, 559. 

breakfast on the lip of a, 63. 

give a grievous roar, 313. 

heart and eagle eye, 340. 

in the lobby roar, 313. 

in the way, 556. 

is in the streets, 556. 

mated by the hind, 45. 

not so fierce as painted, 209, 
611. 

pawing to get free, 187. 

to rouse a, 55. 
Lion's hide, thou wear a, 50. 

mane, dew-drop from a, 74. 
Lip, anger of his, 47. 

coral, admires, 150. 

nectar on a, 383. 

of a lion, 63. 

vermeil-tinctured, 198. 
Lips are now forbid to speak, 502. 

chalice to our own, 90. 

crimson in thy, 81. 

had language, 366. 

heart on her, 484. 

in poverty to the very, 130. 

of Julia, 158. 

of those that are asleep, 561. 

smile on her, 447. 

soul through my, 517. 

steeped to the, in misery, 533. 

suck forth my soul, 15. 

that are for others, 521. 

that he has prest, 535. 

that were forsworn, 24. 

to part her, 15S. 

tremble, see my, 294. 

truth from his, 345. 

were four red roses, 70. 

were red, 157. 

when I ope my, 35. 

whispering with white, 471. 
Liquid dew of youth, 103. 

fire, glass of, 396. 

lapse of murmuring streams, 
187. 

notes that close the eye of day, 
205. 
Liquor for boys, 321. 
Liquors, hot and rebellious, 40. 
Lisp'd in numbers, 286. 
Listen with credulity, 320. 
Listened to a lute, 509. 
Listening mood, 448. 
Listens like a three years' child, 

425-. 
Litel gold in cofre, 2. 
Litigious terms, 207. 
Little boats should keep near 

shore, 316. 
dogs and all, 121. 



Little fire kindleth, 577. 

for the bottle, 379. 

foxes that spoil the vines, 561. 

hands were never made, 254. 

here a, and there a little, 563. 

learning dangerous, 280. 

leaven leaveneth, 573 

lower than the angels, 546. 

man wants but, 264, 348. 

month, 102. 

more than a little, 57. 

more than kin, 101. 

one become a thousand, 564. 

one's chair, 539. 

one's cradle, 539. 

round fat oily man, 311. 

said is soonest mended, 151. 

senate laws, 297. 

thing to give a cup of water, 
501. 

to perceive, 402. 
Live alway, I would not, 544. 

an American, 464. 

bear to, 274. 

by bread alone, 566. 

by one man's will, 16. 

cleanly, leave sack and, 59. 

in deeds not years, 516. 

in hearts, 443. 

in peace adieu, 294. 

in pleasure, 315. 

is Christ, 575. 

laborious days, 199. 

not in myself, 518. 

one day asunder, 234. 

or die, sink or swim, 462. 

past years again, 229. 

so may'st thou, 191. 

taught us how to, 300. 

teach him how to, 356. 

thus let me, 295. 

till to-morrow, 370. 

to please, please to live, 318. 

unblemished let me, 294. 

unseen unknown, 295. % 

well, what thou liv'st, 191. 

while you live, 315. 

with thee and be thy lovd, 13. 

with them less sweet, 455. 
Lived in Settle's numbers, 291. 

on the river Dee, 357. 

she at its close, 512. 
Livelier iris, 518. 
Lively sense of future favors, 253. 

to severe, 275. 
Livers in content, 71. 
Livery of heaven, 501. 

sober, 182. 
Lives a prayer, making their, 525. 

along the line, 270. 



Index. 



693 



Lives as he ought to do, 147, 

in a state of war, 245. 

like a drunken sailor, 69. 

more faith, 523. 

most, who thinks most, 516. 

of great men, 530. 

pleasant in their, 542. 
Liveth not in fierce desire, 445. 
Living a rover, 502. 

dead man, 25. 

dog better than dead lion, 559. 

lyre, 333- 

throne, 330. 
Llewellyn's la} r , 330. 
Lo the poor Indian, 270. 
Load a falling man, 74. 

galling, 388. 

of sorrow, 28. 
Loaf, of a cut, 75. 
Loan oft loses itself, 104. 
Loathed worldly life, 24. 
Loaves, half-penny, 66. 
Lobby, hear a lion in the, 313. 
Lobster boiled, 216. 
Local habitation, 34. 
Lock such rascal counters, 87. 
Locked up from mortal eye, 163. 

up in steel, 66. 
Locks, his golden, 140. 

hyacinthine, 181. 

in the golden story, 76. 

invincible, 208. 

knotted, and combined, 106. 

never shake thy gory, 95. 

open, whoever knocks, 96. 

pluck up by the, 55. 
Locusts, luscious as, 125. 
Lodge a friend, 245. 

in some vast wilderness, 360. 

thee by Chaucer, 145. 
Lodgest, where thou, I will, 542 
Lodging-place of wayfaring men, 

Lodgings in a head, 213. 
Loftiness of thought, 226. 
Lofty and sour, 74. 
Logic and rhetoric make men able 

to contend, 137. 
Loins be girded about, 570. 
Loiterers and malcontents, 30. 
Loke who that is most virtuous, 3. 
London an habitation of bitterns, 
510. 

monster, 167. 
London's column, 279. 

lasting shame, 331. 
Lonely want retired to die, 318. 
Lonesome road, 430. 
Long after it was heard, 411. 

as twenty days, 402. 



Long choosing, 188. 

descent, claims of, 517. 

dull and old, 392. 

experience, 302. 

has it waved on high, 535. 

in populous city, 189. 

is the way and hard, 175. 

live the king, 368. 

long ago, 502. 

majestic march, 289. 

may it wave, 491. 

time ago, 512. 
Long-drawn aisle, 332. 
Longest kingly line, 451. 
Longing after immortality, 251. 

and yet afraid to die, 533. 

lingering look, 334. 

more wavering, 46. 
Long-levelled rule, 196. 
Look a gift horse in the mouth, 
607. 

before you ere you leap, 217. 

drew audience, 175. 

ere thou leap, 7, 607. 

give me a, 144. 

how the floor of heaven, 38. 

into the seeds of time, 88. 

lean and hungry, 83. 

men met with erected, 225. 

not thou upon the wine, 555. 

on her face, 284. 

on it lift it, 524. 

round the habitable world, 
228. 

that Nature wears, 531. 

upon his like again, 102. 

upon this picture, 115. 
Looked, no sooner, but loved, 43. 

unutterable things, 309. 
Looker-on here in Vienna, 25. 
Looking at the steeple, 487. 

before and after, 116. 

ill prevail, 157. 
Looks a Queen, 298. 

commercing, 202. 

despatchful, 185. 

in the clouds, 83. 

puts on his pretty, 50. 

sadly upon him, 71. 

the cottage might adorn, 346. 

through nature, 275. 

with despatchful, 185. 
Looming bastion, 522. 
Loop nor hinge, 129. 
Looped and windowed ragged- 

ness, 120. 
Loop-holes of retreat, 363. 
Loose his beard, 330. 

the bands of Orion, 545. 

type of things, 403. 



694 



Index. 



Lord among wits, 367. 

Fanny spins a thousand such, 
288. 

gave and the Lord hath taken 
away, 543. 

help 'em, 428. 

knows who, 240. 

loveth he chasteneth, 577. 

my bosom's, 80. 

name of the, 70. 

of all things, 272. 

of folded arms, 30. 

of himself, 141, 481. 

of the lion heart, 340. 

of the works of nature, 11. 

of thy presence, 49. 

once own the happy lines, 282. 
Lordly dish, butter in a, 541. 

pleasure-house, 517. 
Lord's anointed, rail on the, 70. 

anointed temple, 93. 
Lords of hell, 522. 

of humankind, 343. 

women who love their, 341. 
Lords' stories, great, 392. 
Lore, skilled in gestic, 343. 
Lose his own soul, 568. 

it that do buy it, 34. 
Losing rendered sager, 484. 
Loss, choice of, 131. 

of dirt, 140. 

of the sun, 306. 

of wealth, 140. 

promise to his, 5S0 
Losses, fellow that hath had. 28. 
Lost, all is, save honour, 530. 

him half the kind, 225. 

I 've, a day, 262. 

in lexicography, 320. 

in the sweets, 301. 

not, but gone before, 3^9. 

praising what is, 45. 

the immortal part, \2 r \ 

what though the field be, 170. 
Lot, how hard their, 359. 
Loth to depart, 241. 
Lothario, gay, 257. 
Loud, curses not, 97. 

huzzas, 275. 

laugh, 345. 

storms annoy, 319. 
Louder but as empty quite, 273. 
Love, a bright, particular star, 45. 

all for, 379. 

all hearts in, 26. 

and be thy, 13. 

and dignity, in everv gesture, 
187. 

and light, 435. 

and that they sing, 169. 



Love, are of, the food, 189. 

beggary in, 131. 

begins to sicken and decay, 
86. 

Briton even in, 402. 

bud of, 78. 

but her for ever, 389, 390. 

but one day, 244. 

can hope, 324. 

cherish and to obey, 579. 

common as light, 494. 

could teach a monarch, 336. 

course of true, 32. 

crossed in, 383. 

deep as first, 521. 

delight in, 256. 

ecstasy of, 108. 

endures no tie, 225. 

everlasting, and eternal joy, 
236. 

familiar beast to man, and bo- 
nifies, 20. 

fasting for a good man's, 42. 

free as air, 293. 

freedom in my, 161. 

hail wedded, 183. 

harvest-time of, 426. 

he bore to learning, 346. 

he spake of, 407. 

her, see her is to, 390. 

him at his call, 405. 

if thou art all, 496. 

in such a wilderness, 443. 

in the beginning, 20. 

indeed is light, 478. 

innocence of, 47. 

is a boy by poets styl'd, 216. 

is doomed to mourn, 497. 

is flower-like, 435. 

is heaven, 444. 

is indestructible, 426. 

is loveliest, 449. 

is not love, 135. 

is strong as death, 561. 

is sweet given or returned, 
494. 

is the fulfilling of the law, 573. 

labour of, 575. 

last not least in, 84. 

light of, 479. 

live with me and be my, 15. 

looks not with the eyes, 32. 

lost between us, 608. 

many waters cannot quench, 
561. 

me little love me long, 16, 159, 
607. 

ministers of, 433. 

music be the food of, 46. 

must needs be blind, 436. 



Index. 



695 



Love, never told her, 47. 
no fear in, 57S. 
not man the less, 475. 
now who never loved, 259. 
of life increased with years, 

379- 
of life's young day, 505. 
of money, root of all evil, 576. 
of Nature holds communion, 

5i3-. 
of praise, 266. 
of the turtle, 478. 
of women, 487, 542. 
office and affairs of, 26. 
on till they die, 453. 
on through all ills, 453. 
one another, 573. 
pains of, 229. 
pangs of despised, in. 
perfect, casteth out fear, 578. 
pity 's akin to, 23S. 
pleasure of, 494. 
prove variable, 78. 
purple light of, 329. 
rules the court, 444. 
seals of, 24. 

seem worthy of your, 418. 
seldom haunts, 297. 
sidelong looks of, 344. 
soft eyes looked, 471. 
sought is good, 47. 
spring of, 19, 430. 
stony limits cannot hold, 77. 
such, as spirits feel, 407. 
that took an early root, 509. 
the more, 259. 
the offender, 293. 
they conquer, that run away, 

150. 
thyself last, 73. 
tide of, 263. 
to hatred turned, 256. 
to me was wonderful, 542. 
too divine to, 499. 
took up the harp of life, 518. 
tunes the shepherd's reed, 

444- 

unrelenting foe to, 311. 

whole course of, 123. 
Love's devoted flame, 457. 

proper hue, 188. 

young dream, 455. 
Loved and lost, 522. 

and still loves, 399. 

at first sight, 15. 

at home, 390. 

but one, 467. 

Caesar less, 85. 

I not honour more, 161. 

in vain, 466. 



Loved me for the dangers, 125. 
my country and I hated him, 

485- 

needs only to be seen, 225. 

no sooner, but sighed, 43. 

none without hope e'er, 324. 

not, the world, 473. 

not wisely but too well, 130. 

Rome more, 85. 

sae blindly, 3S9. 

sae kindly, 389. 

the great sea, 503. 

the lost too many, 473. 

who never, before, 259. 
Love-darting eyes, 19S. 
Lovelier face, 448. 

things have mercy, 477. 
Loveliest, last still, 473. 

of lovely things, 514. 
Loveliness, lay down in her, 431. 

majesty of, 479. 

needs not ornament, 309. 
Lovely and a fearful thing, 4S7. 

as a Lapland night, 40S. 

in death, 263. 

in her husband's eye, 400. 

in your strength, 472. 

Thais sits beside thee, 221. 

things, loveliest of, 514. 
Lover all as frantic, 34. 

and the poet, 33. 

banished, 293. 

familiar to the, 250. 

happy as a, 419. 

in the husband, 324. 

sighing like furnace, 41. 

to listening maid, 514. 

woman loves her, 487. 
Lovers love the western star, 444. 

make two, happy, 290. 

of virtue, 154. 
Lovers' meeting, end in, 46. 

perjuries, 7S. 

perjury, 225. 

tongues by night, 78. 

vows seem sweet, 481. 
Loves on to the close, 455. 
Loving to my mother, 101. 
Low degree, curs of, 349. 

in Glory's lap, 438. 

laid in my grave, 49. 
Lower, can fall no, 215. 
Lowering element, 176. 
Lowest deep a lower, 181. 

of your throng, 184. 
Lowing herd, 332. 
Lowliness is young ambition's 

ladder, 83. 
Lowly born, better to be, 71. 

taught and highly fed, 45. 



696 



Index. 



Lucent sirups, 498. 
Lucid interval, 607. 
Lucifer, falls like, 72. 

son of the morning, 562. 
Luck about the house, 372. 

would have it, 21. 
Lucky chance, 309. 
Lulls to sleep, 348. 
Lumber, learned, 283. 
Lunatic lover and poet, 33. 
Lunes, in his old, 21. 
Lungs began to crow, 40. 
Lurks in every flower, 460. 
Luscious as locusts, 125. 
Lust in man, 230. 

of gold, 524. 
Lustre, ne'er could any, see, 383. 

shine with such, 371. 
Lute, listened to a, 509. 
Luve 's like a red red rose, 390. 

's like the meiodie, 390. 
Luxurious by restraint, 189. 
Luxury curst by Heaven, 347. 

in self-dispraise, 423. 

of disrespect, 420. 

of doing good, 342. 

of woe, 459. 

thinks it, 250. 

to be, 433. 
Lydian airs, 202. 

measures, 220. 
Lyfe so short, 4. 
Lying easy as, 114. 

with Houris, 336. 

world given to, 59. 
Lyre, mood of the, 459. 

Macassar, incomparable oil, 485. 
Mad, 't is true he 's, 108. 

pleasure in being, 230. 
Madden round the land, 285. 

to crime, 478. 
Maddest merriest day, 518. 
Made glorious summer, 68. 

lowly wise, 419. 

manifest, 573. 

out of the carver's brain, 431. 
Madness and despondency, 405. 

for that fine, 142. 

in the brain, 432. 

laughing wild, 328. 

lies that way, 120. 

method in, 108. 

midsummer, 47. 

moon-struck, 190. 

near allied, 221. 

of many, 297. 

to defer, 261. 

would gambol from, 116. 
Madrigals, birds sing, 15. 



Maeonian star, 283. 
Magic number, 256. 

could not copied be, 228. 

of a name, 439. 

of the mind, 4S0. 

potent over sun, 407. 
Magnificent and awful cause, 361. 
Magnificently-stern array, 471. 
Magnitude, liar of the first, 256. 
Mahometans, pleasures of the, 336. 
Maid dancing in the chequer'd 

• shade, 201. 

garland to the sweetest, 300. 

none to praise, 402. 

of Athens ere we part, 467. 

some captive, 293. 

sphere-descended, 339. 

the chariest, 103. 

who modestly conceals, 325. 
Maiden meditation, 33. 

of bashful fifteen, 383. 

presence, scanter of your, 104. 

shame, blush of, 514. 

showers, like those, 159. 

true betrayed, 446. 

with white fire laden, 494. 

young heart of a, 455. 
Maidens like moths, 468. 

withering on the stalk, 418. 
Maids of thirteen, 49. 

who love the moon, 454. 
Main chance, 217, 608. 
Majestic head, less, 475. 

silence, 460. 

though in ruin, 175. 

world, start of the, 82. 
Majesty, clouded, 182. 

next in, 226. 

of loveliness, 479. 

rayless, 261. 
Make a note of, 538. 

a Star-chamber matter, 20. 

languor smile, 287. 

no long orations, 381. 

the angels weep, 23. 

the worse appear, 174. 

two lovers happy, 290. 
Makes drudgery divine, 155. 

man a slave, 299. 

night hideous, 292. 

one wondrous kind, 338. 

slaves of men, 493. 

up life's tale, 434. 
Making beautiful old rhyme, 135. 

earth a hell, 468. 

night hideous, 105. 

the green one red, 93. 
Malice, domestic, 94. 

set down aught in, 130. 

to conceal, 18 1. 



Index. 



697 



Mammon, cannot serve God and, 
566. 

least erected spirit, 173. 

wins his way, 468. 
Man, a debtor to his profession, 

137- 

a flower he dies, 318. 

a living dead, 25. 

a merrier, 29. 

a proper, as one shall see, 32. 

a slave, whatever day makes, 

299. 
a two-legged animal, 582. 
after his desert, 109. 
after his own heart, 542. 
all that a, hath, 543. 
and a brother, 591. 
apparel oft proclaims the, 104. 
architect of his own fortune, 

582. 
arrayed for mutual slaughter, 

414. 
as good kill a, as a book, 207. 
as just a, 112. 
assurance of a, 115. 
at arms, 140. 
at his best state, 548. 
at thirty, 262. 
be vertuous withal. 4. 
bear his own burden, 575. 
before your mother, 370. 
being in honour, 548. 
best good, 234. 
better spared a better, 59. 
blind old, of Scio, 479. 
bold bad, 10, 71. 
born of woman. 544. 
breathes there the, 445. 
breed a habit in a, 19. 
broken with the storms, 73. 
child is father of the, 401. 
childhood shows the, 192. 
Christian faithful, 69. 
conference maketh a readv, 

136. 
crime of being a young, 322. 
crossed with adversity, 19. 
delights not me, 109. 
despised old, 120. 
do all that may become a, 

91. 
do but die, 507. 
do what has been done by, 

265. 
doth not live by bread only, 

54 1 -. 

drest in a little brief author- 
ity, 23. 

dull ear of a drowsv, 50. 



extremes in, 278. 
30 



Man, false, smiling, 237. 
false to any, 104. 
familiar beast to, 20. 
foremost, of all this world, 86. 
forget not, 337. 
free as nature first made, 228. 
fury of a patient. 223. 
goeth forth unto his work, 550. 
goeth to his long home, 560. 
good great, 435. 
good, never dies, 437. 
good old, 27, 40. 
goodliest of men, 182. 
had fixed his face, 409. 
hanging the worst use of, 141. 
happy, is without a shirt, 140. 
happy the, 227. 
he felt as a, 359. 
her wit was more than, 226. 
highest style of, 254. 
honest and perfect, 147. 
honest, the noblest work, 274. 
how poor a thing is, 142. 
I love not, the less, 475. 
impious in a good, 264. 
in ignorance sedate, 317. 
in the bush, 527. 
in the right place, 525. 
in wit a, 296. 
inconsistent, 262. 
is accommodated, 61. 
is born unto trouble, 544. 
is his own star, 147. 
is one world, 156. 
is the gowd for a' that, 389. 
is the nobler growth, 378. 
is thy most awful instrument, 

414. 
is true as steel, 79. 
is vile only, 461. 
judgment "falls upon a, 152. 
lay down his life, 572. 
let him pass for a, 35. 
life of, solitary, 151. 
like to a little kingdom, 84. 
load a falling, 74. 
low sitting on the ground, 10. 
lust in, no charm can tame, 

230. 
made her such a, 125. 
made the town, 360. 
made thee to temper, 236. 
made upright. 559. 
made us citizens, 539. 
makes a death, 264. 
makes his own stature, 265. 
mark the perfect, 547. 
marks the earth, 476. 
may fish with the worm, 116. 
meets his fate, 263. 



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Index. 



Man, mildest manner'd, 488. 

mind the standard of the, 255. 
misery acquaints a, 18. 
more sinned against, 120. 
my foe, one worthy, 287. 
never is but always to be 

blest, 270. 
no such, be trusted, 38. 
no wiser for his learning, 152. 
not made for the Sabbath, 569. 
not passion's slave, 113. 
of a cheese-paring, 61. 
of cheerful yesterdays, 425. 
of knowledge, 137. 
of letters, 367. 
of mettle, 260. 
of morals, 166. 
of my kidney, 21. 
of nasty ideas, 247. 
of peace and war, 217. 
of pleasure, a man of pains, 266. 
of Ross, 279. 
of such feeble temper, 82. 
of the wor!d, 367. 
of unbounded stomach, 73. 
of unclean lips, 562. 
of wisdom is the man of years, 

265. 
of woe, not always a, 444. 
oft the wisest, 403. 
old, eloquent, 205. 
only growth that dwindles, 

342. 

o'er all this scene of, 269. 

perils doe enfold the right- 
eous, 10. 

pity the sorrows of a poor old, 
372. 

plays many parts, 41. 

pleasant in, 347. 

'prentice ban she tried on, 389. 

press not a falling, 72. 

prey was, 294. 

profited, for what is a, 568. 

proper, as one shall see, 32. 

proposes God disposes, 5. 

reading maketh a full, 136. 

recovered of the bite, 349. 

remote from, 259 

round fat oily, 311. 

ruins of the noblest, 85. 

sadder and a wiser, 431. 

save the spirit of, 479. 

scan your brother, 386. 

scattered at the feet of, 425. 

see me more, no, 72. 

seven women hold of one, 562. 

shall cast his idols, 562. 

shall not live by bread alone, 
566. 



Man, she knows her, 227, 284. 
should be alone, 540. 
smiling destructive, 237. 
so besy as he, 2. 
so faint so spiritless, 60. 
so much one, can do, 219. 
so various, 223. 
sour-complexioned, 153. 
soweth that he reaps, 575. 
speak truly, 54. 
stagger like a drunken. 550. 
struggling in the storms of 

fate, 297. 
study of mankind is, 272. 
take him for all in all, 102. 
teach you more of, 417. 
thankless inconsistent, 262. 
that blushes, 266. 
that hails you Tom, 370. 
that hangs on princes' favours, 

72. 
that hath a tongue, 19. 
that hath been in prosperi- 

tie, 4. 
that hath friends, 554. 
that hath no music, 38. 
that lays his hand, 400. 
that may become a, 91. 
that meddles with cold iron, 

214. t _ 
the hermit sighed, 439. 
this is the state of, 72. 
this was a, 87. 
thou art the, 542. 
thou pendulum, 474. 
thoughtless, 262, 424. 
time whereof the memory of, 

356. 
to all the country dear, 345. 
to dying men, 231. 
to mend God's work, 224. 
too fond to rule, 286. 
under his fig-tree, 565. 
virtuous and vicious, every, 

273- 
wants but little, 264, 348. 
weigh the, not his title, 389. 
well-bred, 367. 
well-favoured, 27. 
what a piece of work is, 109. 
what has been done by, 265. 
where he dies for, 504. 
where lives the, that has not 

tried, 450. 
who calleth, let the, 243. 
who made a pun, 239. 
who turnips cries, 322. 
whole duty of, 561. 
whose blood is warm within, 

35- 



Index. 



699 



Man, wise, is strong, 137. 

wished heaven had made her 
such a, 125. 

with him was God or Devil, 
223. 

with large gray eyes, 402. 

with soul so dead, 445. 

within this learned, 16. 

without a tear, 442. 

worth makes the t 274. 

writing maketh an exact, 136. 

written out of reputation, 240. 
Man's best things, 500. 

blood, whoso sheddeth, 540. 

first disobedience, 170. 

hand against him, 540. 

heart deviseth, 554. 

house his castle, 8. 

illusion given, 45S. 

imperial race, 284. 

ingratitude, not so unkind as, 

. 42. 

inhumanity to man, 388. 

love is of man's life a thing 
apart, 486. 

most dark extremity, 450. 

true touchstone, 149. 

unconquerable mind, 412. 
Mandragora, not poppy nor, 128. 
Mane, hand upon thy, 476. 
Manichean god, 364. 
Manifest, shall be made, 573. 
Mankind, cause of, 454. 

deserve better of, 246. 

from China to Peru, 317. 

meanest of, 275. 

misfortunes of, 358. 

proper study of, 2^2. 

think their little set, 379. 
Mankind's concern is charity, 
274. 

epitome, 223. 
.Manliness of grief, 347. 
Manly foe, 398. 

sentiment, 353. 
Manna, tongue dropped, 174. 
Manner born, to the, 104. 
Manners, catch the, 269. 

evil communications corrupt 
good, 574. 

must adorn knowledge, 306. 

of gentle, 296. 

with fortunes, 276. 
Mansions, many, 572. 
Mantle like a standing pond, 35. 

of the standing pool, 121. 

silver, 182. 
Many a feeling heart, 434. 

a time and oft, 3^. 

are called, 568. 



Many must labour for the one, 4 Q o. 

waters cannot quenchlove, 501. 

yet how few, 473. 
Many-colour'd life, 31 8. 
Many-headed monster, 146, 289, 
Many-twinkling feet, 329. 
-Map me no maps, 613. 
Mar what 's well, 120. 
Marathon, gray, 470. 

looks on the sea, 4S8. 

plain of, 321. 
Marble, in dull cold, 72. 

leapt to life, 499. 

to retain, 9, 484. 

to write it in, 73. 

with his name, 279. 

yielding, 168. 
Marbles, mossy, rest, 535. 
Marcellus exiled feels, 275. 
March, beware the Ides of, 82. 

drought of, 1. 

is o'er the mountain waves, 

.441- 

life's morning, 442. 

long majestic, 28;. 

of intellect, 428. 

stormy, has come, 513. 

through Coventry, 58. 

winds of. with beauty, 48. 
Marched on without impediment, 

70. 
Marches to delightful measures, 
68. 

to the grave, 530. 
Marcia towers above her sex, 250. 
Mare, gray, the better horse, 6^6. 
Margin, meadow of, 383. 
Mariners of England, 441. 
Mark, fellow of no, 57. 

now how a plain tale, 56. 

shining, 265. 

the archer little meant, 430. 

the marble with his name, 
279. 

the perfect man, 547. 

what ills, 317. 
Marlborough's eyes, 317. 
Marie, burning, 171. 
Marmion, last words of, 447. 
Marred the lofty line, 446. 
Marriage an open question, 162, 

dirge in, 101. 

of true minds, 135. 

tables, 102. 
Marriage-bell, merry as a, 471. 
Marriages, why so few, are happy, 

. 2 47- 
Married in haste, 256. 
live till I were, 26. 
to immortal verse, 202, 424. 



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Index. 



Marry ancient people, 209. 

proper time to, 368. 
Mars, eye like, 115. 

seat of, 52. 
Marshal's truncheon, 23. 
Marshallest the way, 92. 
Martial airs of England, 464. 

cloak around him, 499. 

outside, 39. 
Martyrdom of fame, 482. 

of John Rogers, 600. 
Martyrs, army of, 578. 

blood of the, 581. 
Mary-buds, winking, 132. 
Masquerade, truth in, 490. 
Mass of things to come, 74. 
Mast, nail to the, 535. 

of some great ammiral, 171. 

sailor on a, 69. 
Master a grief, 27. 

Brook, think of that, 21. 

such, such man, 7. 
Masterly inactivity, 395. 
Master-passion in the breast, 272. 
Master-piece, made his, 93. 

nature's chief, 235. 
Masters of assemblies, 560. 

of their fates, 82. 

spread yourselves, 32. 
Master-spirit embalmed, 208. 
Master-spirits of this age, 84. 
Mastery, strive for, 178. 
Mastiff, greyhound, 121. 
Mated by the lion, 45. 
Mathematics makes men subtile, 

137- 
Matin to be near, 107. 
Matter, german to the, 119. 

no, Berkeley said, 490. 

root of the, 545. 

such vile, 79. 

will re- word, 116. 

with less art, 108. 

wrecks of, 251. 
Mattock and the grave, 264. 
Maturest counsels dash, 174. 
Maudlin poetess, 285. 
Maxim in the schools, 246. 
Maxims, hoard of, 518. 
May, chills the lap of, 342. 

flowers, clouds that shed, 182. 

I be there to see, 368. 

merry month of, 134, 143. 

no rude hand deface it, 411. 

of life, in my, 97. 

wol have no slogardie, 3. 
Mayde, meke as is a, 1. 
Maze, in fancy's, 287. 

mirthful, 343. 
Mazes, in wand'ring, lost, 176. 



Meadow of margin, 383. 
Meadows brown and sear, 514. 

paint with delight, 31. 

trim with daisies, 201. 
Meads in May, 151. 
Meaner beauties of the night, 141. 
Meanest flower that blows, 422. 

floweret of the vale, 335. 

of mankind, 275. 
Means and appliances, 61. 

end justify the, 242. 

not, but ends, 435. 

of evil out of good, 171. 

to be of note, 132. 

to do ill deeds, 51. 

unto an end, 516. 

whereby I live, 38. 
Measure for law, 152. 

of my days, 547. 

sighed to, 404. 

to tread a, 31. 

wind by, 156. 
Measured by my soul, 255. 

many a mile, 31. 

phrase, 405. 
Measureless content, 91. 
Measures, delightful, 68. 

in short, 144. 

Lydian, 220. 

not men, 350. 
Meat for the hungry, 9. 

God sends, 605. 

I cannot eat but little, 9. 

it feeds on, 128. 

upon what, 83. 
Meats, funeral baked, 102. 
Mecca saddens, 309. 
Meccas of the mind, 529. 
Mechanic slaves, 132. 
Mechanized automaton, 493. 
Meddles with cold iron, 214. 
Meddling, every fool will be, 554. 
Mede, floures in the, 5. 
Medes and Persians, 565. 
Med'cinable gum, 131. 
Medicine, miserable have no oth- 
er, but only hope, 23. 

thee to that sweet sleep, 128. 
Medicines to make me love, 55. 
Meditate the thankless muse, 199. 
Meditation, maiden, 33. 
Meditative spleen, 423. 
Medium, no cold, 298. 
Meed of some melodious tear, 199. 

unworthy, 395. 
Meek and gentle, 85. 

and quiet spirit, 577. 

nature's evening comment, 
414. 

patient spirit, 165. 



Index. 



70 1 



Meek Walton's heavenly memory, 

416. 
Meek-eyed Morn, 308. 
Meet again, if we do, 87. 

in her aspect, 481. 

like a pleasant thought, 403. 

mortality, 190. 

nurse for a poetic child, 446. 

the sun upon the upland lawn, 

334- 

the sun in his coming, 463. 

thee at thy coming, 562. 

with champagne, 30-5. 
Meeting, broke the good, 95. 

of gentle lights, 157. 
Meets the ear, 203. 
Meke as is a mayde, 1. 
Melancholy, but only, 148. 

chord in, 507. 

days are come, 514. 

green and yellow, 47. 

main, amid the, 310. 

marked him, 335. 

moping, 190. 

most musical most, 203. 

of mine own, 42. 

slow, 342. 

soothe her, 349. 

sweetest, 148. 

train, 343. 

waste, 513. 
Mellow, goes to bed, 147. 
Mellowed to that tender light, 481. 
Mellowing of occasion, 30. 

year, before the, 199. 
Melodie, foules maken, 1. 
Melodies, heard, are sweet, 498. 

the echoes, 435. 

thousand, unheard, 399. 
Melodious tear, 199. 
Melody, blundering kind of, 223. 

crack the voice of, 536. 

of every grace, 161. 
Melrose, fair, 444. 
Melt and dispel ye spectre doubts, 
440. 

at others' woe, 299. 

into his heart, 409. 

into sorrow, 47S. 

too solid flesh would, 101. 
Melted into air, 18. 
Melting mood, unused to the, 131. 
Melts like kisses, 484. 

the mind to love, 220. 
Memories, set off his, 149. 
Memory, bitter, 1S0. 

dear son of, 204. 

for his jests, 384. 

holds a seat, 107. 

how sweet their, 368. 



Memory, leaves of, 534. 
Morning-star of, 478. 
name and, 139. 
of all he stole, 291. 
of man, 356. 
of the just, 552. 
pluck from the, 98. 
silent shore of, 424. 
sinner of his, 17. 
table of my, 107. 
throng into my, 195. 
ventricle of, 30. 
vibrates in the, 495. 
Walton's heavenly, 416. 
warder of the brain, 91. 
Washington's awful, 427. 
watches o'er the sad review, 

439- 
Men about me that are fat, 83. 
affairs of, 87. 
all honourable, 85. 
and women players, 41. 
are April when they woo, 43. 
are but children, 228. 
are created equal, 376. 
are we, 412. 

are you good, and true, 27. 
bad, combine, 351. 
below and saints above, 444. 
beneath the rule of, 505. 
best of, 165. 
busy hum of, 201. 
by losing rendered sager, 4^4. 
callen daisies, 5. 
cause that wit is in other, 60. 
cheerful ways of, 179. 
companies of, 219. 
cradled into poetiy, 494. 
crowd of common, 160. 
crueltie and ambition of, 13. 
daily do not knowing what, 27. 
dare do what men may do, 

27. 
December when they wed, 43. 
deeds are, 320. 
do a-land, 133. 

draw, as they ought to be, 347. 
draw near their eternal home, 

168. 
drink, reasons why, 235. 
evil that, do, 85. 
favour the deceit, 229. 
forty thousand, went up a 

hill, 150. 
from the chimney-corner, 14. 
godlike, 470. 
happy breed of, 52. 
have died not for love, 43. 
have lost their reason, 85. 
have their price, 253. 



702 



Index. 



Men, histories make, wise, 137. 
honourable, in their genera- 
tions, 566. 
impious, bear sway, 251. 
in the catalogue, 94. 
let but thy wicked, 167. 
lives of great, 530. 
living to be brave, 207. 
masters of their fates, 82. 
mathematics makes, subtile, 

i37 : 

may live fools, 264. 

may read strange matters, 90. 

measures not, 350. 

met each other, 225. 

moral philosophy makes, 

grave, 137. 
moulded out of faults, 25. 
must be taught, 283. 
my brothers, 519. 
natural philosophy makes, 

deep, 137. 
nature made us, 539. 
nothing of its greatest, 515. 
of inward light, 218. 
of letters, 367^ 
of renowned virtue, 208. 
of sense approve, 282. 
of wit will condescend, 246. 
only disagree, 176. 
quit yourselves like, 542. 
reach of ordinary, 405. 
rich, rule the law, 343. 
roll of common, 57. 
schemes of mice and, 386. 
science that, lere, 4. 
shame to, 176. 
shiver when thou art named, 

307. 
shock of, 469. 
sleek-headed, 83. 
smile no more, 301. 
some to business take, 277. 
some to pleasure take, 277. 
such, are dangerous, 83. 
talk to conceal the mind, 

267. 
tall, had empty heads, 137. 
tastes of, 337. 
tell them they are, 328. 
that fishes gnawed upon, 69. 
the most infamous, 357. 
the workers, 519. 
think all men mortal, 262. 
this blunder, in, 379. 
tide in the affairs of, 87. 
twelve good, 504. 
two strong, 298. 
unburied, 162. 
ways of God to, 170. 



Men, we petty, walk under, 82, 

were deceivers ever, 26. 

which never were, 44. 

who can hear the Decalogue, 
420. 

who their duties know, 380. 

whose heads do grow beneath 
their shoulders, 124. 

wiser by weakness, 168. 

wisest of, 192. 

would be angels, 270. 

wrong these holy, 467. 

you and other, think, 82. 
Men's business and bosoms, 136. 

charitable speeches, 139. 

evil manners, 73. 

office to speak patience, 28. 

souls, times that try, 375. 
Mended, little said is soonest, 151. 
Menial, pampered, 372. 
Mention her, we never, 502. 
Mentions hell to ears polite, 279. 
Merchants are princes, 563. 

do congregate, 35. 
Mercie unto others show, 11. 
Mercies of the wicked, 553. 
Mercury can rise, 297. 

like feathered, 58. 

like the herald, 115. 
Mercy and truth are met, 549. 

ever hope to have, 11. 

God all, 264. 

I to others show, 295. 

is nobility's true badge, 75. 

is not strained, 37. 

lovelier things have, 477. 

render the deeds of, 37. 

seasons justice, 37. 

shut the gates of, 334. 

sighed farewell, 480. 

temper justice with, 190. 

we do pray for, 37. 
Mere, lady of the, 403. 
Meridian of my glory, 72. 
Merit, candle to thy, 314. 

envy will pursue, 282. 

her, lessened yours, 325. 

raised to that bad eminence, 
174. 

spurns that patient, 111. 

wins the soul, 285. 
Merits, careless their, 345. 

dumb on their own, 392. 

to disclose, 335. 
Mermaid, things done at the, 148. 
Meroe Nilotic isle, 192. 
Merriment, flashes of, 118. 
Merry and wise, 390. 

as a marriage-bell, 471. 

as the day is long, 26. 



Index. 



703 



Merry dancing drinking, 226. 

drink and be, 559. 

eat drink and be, 570. 

fool to make me, 43. 

I am not, 126. 

in hall, 7. 

meetings, changed to, 68. 

when I hear sweet music, 38. 
Message of despair, 440. 
Messes, country, 201. 
Met 't was in a crowd, 502. 

no sooner, 43. 
Metal Pinjure se grave en, 73. 

more attractive, 113. 

sonorous, 172. 
Metaphysic wit, high as, 213. 
Meteor flag of England, 441. 

harmless flaming, 330. 

shone like a, 172. 

streamed like a, 330. 

streaming to the wind, 172. 
Meteor-rav, misled by fancy's, 

338/ 
Methinks it were an easy leap, 55. 
Method in madness, 10S. 

in man's wickedness, 149. 

of making a fortune, 336. 
Methought I heard a voice, 93. 
Metre ballad-mongers, 57. 

of an antique song, 134. 
Mettle, a lad of, 56. 

man of, 260. 
Mew, be a kitten and cry, 57. 
Mewing her mighty youth, 208. 
Mewling and puking, 41. 
Mice and such small deer, 121. 

appear like, 122. 

best-laid schemes of, 386. 

feet like little, 157. 
Miching mallecho, 113. 
Midas rne no Midas, 613. 
Middle age on his bold visage, 448. 

of the night, 102. 
Midnight brought on, 185. 

chimes at, 61. 

crew, 332. 

dances, 296. 

dead of, 378. 

flower like the, 454. 

iron tongue of, 34. 

murder, 331. 

oil consumed, 302, 608. 

revels, 173. 

shout and revelry, 194. 

stars of, 404. 
Midst of life, 580. 

of the battle, 542. 
Midsummer madness, 47. 
Midwife, fairies', 76. 
Mien, frightful, 273. 



Might say her body thought, 143, 

stop a hole, 118. 

would not when he, 599. 
Mightier far than strength of 
nerve, 407. 

than the sword, 505. 
Mightiest in the mightiest, 37. 

Julius fell, 100. 
Mighty above all things, 566. 

ale a large quart, 3. 

dead, converse with the, 310. 

fallen, how are the, 542. 

heart is lying still, 410. 

hunter, 294. 

maze, 269. 

minds of old, 428. 

orb of song, 422. 

poets in their misery, 405. 

shrine of the, 477. 

state's decrees, 523. 

workings, hum of, 499. 
Mildest manner'd man, 488. 
Mile, measured many a, 31. 
Miles asunder, villain and he are 
many, 80. 

twelve stout, 402. 
Milk, adversity's sweet, 80. 

and honey, 541. 

and water, 484. 

of human kindness, 89. 

of Paradise, 434. 
Milky way i' the sky, 157. 

way, solar walk or, 270. 
Mill, more waters glideth by the, 

than wots the miller, 75. 
Milliner, perfumed like a, 54. 
Million, pleased not the, 109. 
Millions for defence, 393. 

of spiritual creatures, 183. 

of surprises, 155. 

ready saddled, 233. 

think, perhaps makes, 488. 

yet to be, thanks of, 528. 
Mills of God grind slowly, 534. 
Mill-stone about his neck, 571. 

nether, 546. 
Milton, mute inglorious, 333. 

path of, 410. 

sightless, 414. 
Milton's golden lyre, 337. 
Mind, all of one, 577. 

bettering of my, 17. 

bliss which centres in the, 
343- 

body or estate, 578. 

but to my, 104. 

by owing owes not, 180, 

dagger of the, 92. 

desert of the, 477. 

desires of the, 138. 



704 



Index, 



Mind diseased, minister to a, 98. 
education forms the common, 

276. 
eyes are in his, 436. 
farewell the tranquil, 129. 
fire from the, 470. 
frugal, she had a, 368. 
gives to her, what he steals 

from her youth, 325. 
glance of the, 369. 
grateful, owes not, 180. 
haunts the guilty, 67. 
infirmity of noble, 199. 
is its own place, 171. 
is the standard of the man, 

255- 

large and fruitful, 137. 

love looks with the, 32. 

magic of the, 480. 

Meccas of the, 529. 

musing in his sullen, to. 

nobler in the, to suffer, no. 

noblest, the best contentment 
has, 10. 

not to be changed, 171. 

of desultory man, 360. 

out of sight, out of, 5, 14. 

outbreak of a fiery, 108. 

o'erthrown, noble, 112. 

persuaded in his own, 573. 

philosophic, that bring the, 
422. 

pity melts the, 220. 

quite vacant, 365. 

raise and erect the, 138. 

sad thoughts to the, 417. 

spoke the vacant, 345. 

talk to conceal their, 267. 

that builds for aye, 410. 

to me a kingdom is, 598. 

to me an empire is, 598. 

to mind, 445. 

torture of the, 94. 

unconquerable, 329, 412. 

untutored, 270. 

visage in his, 125. 

were weight, 414. 
Mind's construction, 89. 

eye Horatio, 102. 
Minds, admiration of weak, 191. 

are not ever craving, 384. 

balm of hurt, 93. 

innocent and quiet, 161. 

led captive, 191. 

marriage of true, 135. 

of old, 428. 

that have nothing to confer, 
402. 
Mine be a cot, 399. 

be the breezy hill, 359. 



Mine eye seeth thee, 546. 

fairy of the, 196. 

host of the Garter, 20. 

own, do what I will with, 568. 

own familiar friend, 580. 

own ill-favored thing, 43. 

what is yours is, 25. 
Mingle mingle mingle, 96. 
Minions of the moon, 54. 
Minister, one fair spirit for my, 475. 

the patient must, 98. 

to a mind diseased, 98. 
Ministering angel, 447. 
Ministers of grace, 104. 

of love, 433. 
Minnows, Triton of the, 75. 
Minor pants for twenty-one, 288. 
Mint and anise, 569. 
Minute, Cynthia of this, 277. 
Minutes, damned, 128. 
Miracle, accept a, 268. 
Mirror, in that just, 265. 

to a gaping age, 526. 

truest, of an honest wife, 400. 

up to nature, 112. 
Mirth and fun grew fast, 386. 

and innocence, 484. 

can into folly glide, 450. 

displaced the, 95. 

in funeral, 101. 

limit of becoming, 29. 

of its December, 509. 

string, attuned to, 507. 

wisdom with, 347. 
Mischief, it means, 113. 
Miserable comforters are ye all, 

544- 

no other medicine, 23. 

sinners, mercy upon us, 578. 

to be weak is, 171. 
, Miseries, in shallows and in, 87. 
! Miser's pensioner, 420. 

treasure, 196. 
Misery acquaints a man, 18. 

child of, 373. 

had worn him, 80. 

he gave to, all he had, 335. 

poets in their, 405. _ 

steeped to the lips in, 533. 
Misery's darkest cavern, 318. 
Misfortune made the throne, 257, 

267. 
Misfortune's book, 80. 
Misfortunes, bear another's, 297. 

of mankind, 358. 
Misled by fancy's'meteor-ray, 388. 
Miss the mark, 381. 
Mist is dispelled, 301. 

of years, 469. 
Mistress of herself, 278. 



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70$ 



Mistress, such, such Nan, 7. 
Mis,.y mountain-tops. 80. 
Mixed reason with pleasure, 347. 
Mixture of earth's mould, 195. 
Mixtures of more happy days, 4S4. 
Moan of doves, 521. 
Moat defensive to a house, 52. 
Mob of gentlemen, 289. 
Mock a broken charm, 432. 

at sin, fools make a, 553. 

the air with idle state, 330. 

the meat it feeds on, 128. 
Mocked himself, as if he, 83. 
Mockery king of snow, 53. 

of woe, 296. 

unreal, hence, 95. 
Mocking the air, 51. 
Mocks me with the view, 342. 
Model of the barren earth, 53. 
Moderate haste, one with, 103. 
Moderation is the silken string, 

146. 
Modes of faith, 273. 
Modest front of this small floor, 
163. 

innocence away, 317. 

men are dumb, 392. 

pride and coy submission, 182. 
Modesty, bounds of, 80. 

's a candle to thy merit, 314. 

of nature, 112. 

pure and vestal, 80. 
Moles and to the bats, 562. 
Moment, give to God each, 315. 

some awful, 419. 
Momentary bliss, 328. 
Moments make the year, 267. 
Monarch, love could teach a, 336. 

of all I survey, 369. 

of mountains, 483. 

of the vine, 131. 

scandalous and poor, 234. 

the throned, 37. 
Monarchies, mightiest, 175. 
Monarchs, change perplexes, 172. 

seldom sigh in vain, 447. 
Monarchy, trappings of a, 321. 
Monastic brotherhood, 423. 
Money in thy purse, 125. 

much, as 't will bring, 216. 

of fools, 151. 

still get, 145. 

the love of, the root of all evil, 
576. 
Mongrel puppy whelp, 349. 
Monie a blunder free us, 386. 
Monk, the devil would be, 6. 
Monster, faultless, 235. 

green-eyed, 128. 

London, 167. 

30* 



Monster, many-headed, 146, 289, 

.449- 

vice is a, 273. 
Mont Blanc is the monarch, 4S3. 
Month, laughter for a, 55. 

little, 102. 
Months that have not an R, 587. 
Monument, patience on a, 47. 
Monumental pomp of age, 414. 
Monuments, hung up for, 63. 

shall last, 265. 
Mood, blessed, 406. 

listening, 448. 

melting, 131. 

of the lyre. 459. 

that sweet, 417. 
Moody madness, 328. 
Moon, auld, in her arms, 598. 

bay the, 87. 

by yonder blessed, 78. 

close by the, 179. 

glimpses of the, 105. 

had rilled her horn, 261. 

inconstant, 78. 

is an arrant thief, 81. 

looks on many brooks, 454. 

made of green cheese, 608. 

minions of the, 54. 

mortals call the, 494. 

one revolving, 223. 

pale-faced, 55. 

rolls through the dark-blue 
depths, 426. 

shine at full, or no, 217. 

silent as the, 193. 

sits arbitress, 173. 

swear not by the, 78. 

takes up the wondrous tale, 
252. 

that monthly changes, 78. 

this fair, 183. 

wandering, 203. 
Moon's unclouded grandeur, 493. 
Moonbeams play, 461. 
Moonlight shade, 296. 

sleeps upon this bank, 38. 
Moons wasted, nine. 123. 
Moon-struck madness, 190. 
Moor, lady married to the, 418. 
Moping melancholy, 190. 
Moral evil and of good, 417. 

philosophy makes men grave, 

X 37; 

sufficiency to be so, 28. 

to point a. 317. 
Morality expires, 292. 

is perplexed, 355. 
Moralized his song, 287. 
Morals which Milton held, 413. 
Mordre wol out, 4. 

SS 



706 



Index. 



More blessed to give, 572. 

in sorrow than in anger, 102. 

is meant than meets the ear, 
203. 

knave than fool, 16. 

matter with less art, 108. 

safe I sing, 186. 

sinn'd against, 120. 

sum of. 39. 

sure than day, 435. 

than a crime, 394. 

than kin, 101. 

than painting can express, 257. 

than soldier, 453. 

than the Pope of Rome, 214. 

the merrier, 60S. 

things in heaven, 107. 
Morn and liquid dew, 103. 

blushing like the, 188. 

breath of, 183. 

dawning of, 442. 

eyelids of the, 199. 

her rosy steps, 184. 

in russet mantle, 101. 

incense-breathing, 332. 

laughs the, 331. 

meek-eyed, 308. 

of toil, 448. 

on the Indian steep, 195. 

risen on mid-noon, 185, 425. 

to noon he fell, 173. 

tresses like the, 198. 

with rosy hand, 186. 
Morning dew, like the, 439. 

fair came forth, 192. 

light of the, 463. 

like the spirit of a youth, 132. 

lowers, 250. 

of the times, 520. 

pleasant in thy, 388. 

shows the day, 192. 

sow thy seed, in the, 560. 

star of memory, 478. 

star, stay the, 433. 

stars sang together, 545. 

wings of the, 551. 

womb of the, 11. 

wore to evening, 521. 
Morning-drum beat, 463. 
Morrow, good night till it be, 
78. 

rainy, 135. 

thought for the, 567. 
Mortal coil, shuffled off this, no. 

frame, 295, 432. 

he raised a. 221. 

hopes defeated, 408. 

instruments, 83. 

men think all men, 262. 

resting-place, 474. 



Mortal through a crown's disguise, 

337- . 

voices bid, 408. 
Mortality 's too weak to bear, 238. 

my sentence, 190. 

thoughts of, 210. 

watch o'er man's, 422. 
Mortals call the moon, 494. 

given, some feelings to, 448. 

to command success, 250. 
Moss, rolling stone gathers no, 6. 
Moss-covered bucket, 451. 
Mossy marbles rest, 535. 
Most musical, 203. 

unkindest cut, 86. 
Motes that people the sunbeams, 

202. 
Moth, desire of the, 495. 
Mother Earth, 409. 

happy with such a, 521. 

in Israel, 541. 

is a mother still, 433. 

loving to my, 101. 

man before your, 370. 

meets on high, 426. 

of all living, 540. 

of arts and eloquence, 192. 

of devotion, 228. 

of dews, 30S. 

of invention, 258. 

of safety, 355. 

the holiest thing alive, 433. 

who : d give her booby, 302. 
Mother-wit, 608. 
Moths, maidens like, 468. 
Motion and a spirit, 407. 

in our proper, 174. 

like an angel, 38. 

of a hidden fire, 438. 

of a muscle, 401. 

sensible warm, 24. 
Motionless as ice, 411. 

torrents, 433. 
Motions of his spirit, 38. 
Motley 's the only wear, 40. 
Mould, ethereal, 174. 

mixture of earth's, 195. 

of form, 112. 
Moulded out of faults, 25. 
Moulder piecemeal, 478. 
Mouldering urn, 359. 
Moulding Sheridan, 482. 
Moulds a tear, 400. 
Mount Abora, singing of, 434. 
Mount Casius old, 176. 
Mountain in its azure hue, 439. 

piny, 436. 

small sands the, 267. 

tops, misty, 80. 

waves, march is o'er the, 441. 



Index. 



707 



Mountains, bind him to his na- 
tive, 343. 

Greenland's icy, 461. 

high, are a feeling, 472. 

interpos'd. 361. 

look on Marathon, 488. 
Mounted in delight, 405. 
Mounting in hot haste, 471. 
Mourn, lacks time to, 515. 

who thinks must, 241. 
Mourned by man, 408. 

the loved and, 473. 
Mournful midnight hours, 534. 

number?, 530. 

rustling in the dark, 534. 

truth, this, 318. 
Mourning, house of, 558. 

oil of joy for, 564. 
Mournings for the dead, 533. 
Mourns the dead, he, 262. 

her worshipper, mute Nature, 

445- 

that, eternity, 515. 
Mouse with one poor hole, 297. 
Mousing owl hawked at, 93. 
Mouth and the meat, 6. 

and thou 'It, 119. 

gaping, and stupid eyes, 224. 

gift horse in the, 607. 

ginger hot in the, 46. 

out of thine own, 571. 

swallowing a tailor's news, 
with open, 51. 

which hath the deeper, 65. 
Mouth-filling oath, 57. 
Mouth-honour breath, 97. 
Mouths a sentence, 357. 

enemy in their, 127. 

familiar in their, 64. 

of babes and sucklings, 546. 

of wisest censure, 126. 

without hands, 224. 
Moving, push on keep, 394. 
Mown grass, rain upon the, 549. 
Much goods laid up, 570. 

something too, of this, 113. 

too much, 57. 
Mud. sun reflecting upon the, 139. 
Muddy ill-seeming, 44. 
Muffled drums are beating, 530. 
Multiplied visions, 565. 
Multiplieth words, 545. 
Multitude cail the afternoon, 31. 

is always wrong, 232. 

many-headed, 289. 

of counsellors, 553. 

of sins, 577. 

swinish, 354. 
Multitudes in the valley, 565. 
Multitudinous seas, 93. 



Murder, midnight, 331. 

one, made a villain, 356. 

one to destroy is, 267. 

sacrilegious, 93. 

though it have no tongue will 
speak, no. 

thousands, takes a specious 
name, 267. 
Murders, twenty mortal, 95. 
Murmuring, fled, 184. 

sound, born of, 404. 
Murmurings heard within, 424. 
Murmurs, hollow, died away, 339. 

near the running brooks, 418. 
Muscle, motion of a, 401. 
Muse, creates a, 169. 

of fire, 62. 

on nature, 440. 

meditate the thankless, 199. 

worst-natured, 234. 
Music be the food of love, 46. 

breathing from her face, 479. 

ceasing of exquisite, 532. 

discourse most eloquent, 114. 

dwells lingering, 416. 

hath charms, 256. 

heavenly maid, 339. 

his very foot has, 372. 

in my heart, 411. 

in the beauty, 161. 

in the nightingale, 19. 

instinct with, 403. 

man that hath no, 38. 

merry when I hear sweet, 38. 

night shall be filled with, 532. 

of her face, 161. 

of humanity, 405. 

of the union, 508. 

of those village bells, 364. 

slumbers in the shell, 399. 

some to church repair for, 281. 

sphere-descended maid, 339. 

sweeter than their own, 418. 

that would charm, 410. 

the sea-maid's, 33. 

to attending ears, softest, 78. 

vocal spark, 403. 

waste their, 333. 

when soft voices die, 495. 

with its voluptuous swell, 471. 

with the enamel'd stones, 19. 
Music's golden tongue, 498. 
Musical as is Apollo's lute, 31, 197. 

most melancholy, 203. 
Musing in his sullen mind, 10. 

on companions, 446. 

the fire burned, while, 547. 
Muskets so contrive it, 381. 
Must helpless man, 317. 

I thus leave thee, 190. 



708 



Index. 



Mute inglorious Milton, 333. 

Nature mourns, 445. 
Mutter and mock, 432. 

and peep, 562. 
Mutton, joint of, 62. 
Muttons, to return to our, 6. 
My better half, 14. 

ever new delight, 184. 

Father made them all, 364. 

father's brother, 102. 

native land good night, 468. 
Myriad-minded Shakespeare, 437. 
Myriads of daisies, 416. 

of rivulets, 521. 
Myself, such a thing as I, 82. 
Mysterious cement of the soul, 

3°7- 

union with its native sea, 424. 

way, God moves m a, 369. 
Mystery, burden of the, 406. 

heart of my, 114. 

of mysteries, 451. 
Mystic fabric sprung, 460. 
Mystical lore, 441. 

Nae luck about the house, 372. 
Naiad of the strand, 448. 

or a grace, 448. 
Nail, care adds a, 373. 

fasten him as a, 562. 

to the mast, 535. 
Nailed by the ears, 217. 
Nails fastened by the masters, 560. 

in your face, 66. 
Naked came I out of, 543. 

every day he clad, the, 349. 

human heart, 263. 

in December snow, 52. 

new-born babe, 90. 

new-born child, 380. 

to mine enemies, 73. 

villany, clothe my, 69. 

woods and meadows, 514. 
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est, 

137- 
Name and memory, 139. 

at which the world grew pale, 

3 X 7- 
better than precious ointment, 

553. . , 
deed without a, 96. 
every friendless, 318. 
filches from me my good, 127. 
his former, 185. 
in man and woman, 127. 
in print, 466. 
is great in mouths, 126. 
is Legion, 570. 
is MacGregor, 450. 
is never heard, 502. 



Name is Norval, 341. 

lights without a, 157. 

local habitation and a, 34. 

magic of a, 439. 

mark the marble with his, 279. 

no one can speak, 427. 

of action, hi. 

of Crispian, 64. 

of the Lord, 70. 

of the slough, 231. 

Phcebus what a, 467. 

rose by any other, 77. 

to every fixed star, 29. 

unmusical, 75. 

waft thy, 466. 

well spelt, 490. 

what 's in a, 77. 

whistling of a, 275. 
Named thee but to praise, 529. 
Namelessunremembered acts, 406. 
Names, few immortal, 528. 

forget men's, 49. 

he loved to hear, 535. 

of all the gods, 83. 

twenty more such, 44. 

which never were, 44. 
Naps, old John, of Greece, 44. 
Narcissa's last words, 277. 
Narrow human wit, 280. 

isthmus, 452. 
Nathan said to David, 542. 
Nation, ballads of a, 236. 

corner-stone of a, 532. 

exalted by righteousness, 553. 

laws of a, 236. 

noble and puissant, 208. 

of gallant men, 353. 

of shop-keepers, 593. 

preserved us a, 491. 

small one a strong, 564. 
Nation's eyes, history in a, 334. 
Nations, but two, 219. 

cheap defence of, 353. 

drop of a bucket, 563. 

fierce contending, 252. 

make enemies of, 361. 

Niobe of, 474. 
Native and to the manner born, 
104. 

heath, my foot is on my, 450. 

hue of resolution, in. 

land good night, 468. 
. shore, adieu my, 468. 

to the heart, 101. 

wood-notes wild, 202. 
Nativity chance or death, 21. 
Natural in him to please, 221. 

on the stage, 348. 

philosophy makes men deep, 
137- 



Index. 



709 



Natural sorrow loss or pain, 411. 
Naturalists observe a flea, 245. 
Nature, accuse not, 188. 

affrighted, recoils, 355. 

ancestors of, 178. 

and nature's laws, 290. 

appalled, 307. 

be your teacher, 417. 

book of, 506. 

broke the die, 482. 

cannot miss, 225. 

clever man by, 396. 

commonplace of, 403. 

compunctious visitings of, 89. 

could no further go, 226. 

debt to, 154. 

diseased, 57. 

done in my days of, 106. 

extremes in, 278. 

fast in fate, 295. 

first made man, 228. 

fool of, stood, 224. 

fools of, 105. 

force of, 226. 

formed but one such, 482. 

framed strange fellows, 34. 

from her seat, 189. 

his, is too noble, 75. 

hold the mirror up to, 112. 

holds communion, 513. 

in her corages, 1. 

in spite of, 214. 

in the eye of, 420. 

is but art unknown, 271. 

is the art of God, 266. 

it is their, too, 254. 

lost in art, 340. 

lost the perfect mould, 4S2. 

love of, holds, 513. 

made a pause, 261. 

made thee to temper man, 
236. 

made us men, 539. 

might stand up, 87. 

modesty of, 112. 

mourns her worshipper, 445. 

muse on, 440. 

never did betray, 407. 

never lends her excellence, 
22. 

never made, death which, 264. 

never put her jewels, 137. 

ne'er would thrive, 241. 

no such thing in, 235. 

of an insurrection, 84. 

one touch of, 74. 

paint like, 308. 

prodigality of, 68. 

sink in years, 251. 

solid ground of, 410. 



Nature, spoils of, 333. 
state of war by, 245. 
subdu'd to what it works in, 

135. 
sullenness against, 207. 
swears the lovely dears, 389. 
the vicar of the almightie 

Lord, 5. 
to advantage dressed, 281. 
to write and read comes by, 

2 7- . 

under tribute, 396. 

unjust to, 262. 

up to nature's God, 275. 

voice of, cries, 334. 

war was the state of, 351. 

was an apprentice, 389. 

wears one universal grin, 314. 

who can paint like, 308. 

whose body, is, 271. 

womb of, 178. 

workes of, 11. 

yet do I fear thy, 89. 
Nature's bastards, 198. 

chief masterpiece, 235. 

cockloft is empty, 210. 

copy is not eterne, 94. 

daily food, 404. 

end of language, 267. 

evening comment, 414. 

heart beats strong, 500. 

heart in tune, 505. 

journeymen, 112. 

kindly law, 273. 

laws lay hid in night, 290. 

own creating, 311. 

own sweet cunning hand, 46. 

second course, 93. 

soft nurse, 61. 

sweet restorer, 261. 

teachings, list to, 513. 

walks, eye, 269. 
Natures, common, same with, 260. 
Naught but grief and pain, 386. 

falling into, 251. 

in this life sweet, 148. 

nay doth stand for, 134. 
Naughty night, 121. 
Nautilus, learn of the little, 273. 
Navies are stranded, 449. 
Nay doth stand for naught, 134. 

shall have, 599. 
Nazareth, good thing out of, 571. 
Neasra's hair, tangles of, 199. 
Near a thousand tables, 401. 

the lake, 512. 
Nearer my God to thee, 537. 
Neat, still to be, 144. 
Neat-handed Phillis, 201. 
Necessite maken vertue of, 3. 



710 



Index. 



Necessity the argument of ty- 
rants, 323. 

the mother of invention, 258. 

the tyrant's plea, 182. 

to glorious gain, 419. 

virtue of, 611. 
Necks, trust our, 381. 
Nectar on a lip, 383. 
Nectarean juice, 501. 
Nectared sweets, 197. 
Need, deserted at his utmost, 220. 

of a remoter charm, 406. 

of blessing, 92. 

in times of, 224. 
Needful, one thing is, 570. 
Needle, eye of a, 568. 

true as the, 268. 

true, like the, 372. 
Needless Alexandrine, 282. 
Needs go that the Devil drives, 45. 
Needy hollow-eyed, 25. 
Neglect, salutary, 352. 

such sweet, 144. 
Neglecting worldly ends, 17. 
Neighbour's com, 402. 

shame, 230. 
Neighe as ever he can, 3. 
Neither here nor there, 130. 

kith nor kin, 598. 

rich nor rare, 286. 

shape of anger, 419. 
Nelly, none so fine as, 244. 
Nemean lion's nerve, 105. 
Nemo repente venit turpissimus, 

149. 
Neptune, would not flatter, 75. 
Nerve, the visual, 190. 
Nerves and finer fibres, 311. 

shall never tremble, 95. 
Nest, last year's, 531. 
Nest-eggs to make clients lay, 

219. 
Nestor swear, though, 34. 
Nests, birds of the air have, 567. 

in order ranged, 194. 
Net, all is fish cometh to, 7. 
Nether millstone, 546. 
Nets, in making, 247. 
Nettle danger, out of this, 56. 

stroke a, 260. 
Neutrality, cold, 354. 
Never believe me, 433. 

can forget, 505. 

comes to pass, 392. 

ending still beginning, 221. 

felt a calm so deep, 410. 

less alone, 399. 

loved sae kindly, 389. 

mention her, 502. 

met or never parted, 389. 



Never morning wore, 521. 
never never, 323. 
stand to doubt, 160. 
to hope again, 72. 
would lay down my arms, 

323- 
Never-ending flight of days, 175. 
Never-failing friends, 428. 

vice of fools, 280. 
Nevermore be officer of mine, 126. 

quoth the raven, 525. 
New, look amaist as weel's the, 390. 

world into existence, 398. 

Zealand, traveller from, 510. 
New-born babe, 115. 
New-fledged offspring, 345. 
New-made honour, 49. 
New-spangled ore, 200. 
News, bringer of unwelcome, 60. 

evil, rides post, 194. 

from a far country, 556. 

good, baits, 194. 
Newt, eye of, 96. 
Next doth ride, 368. 
Nicanor lay dead. 566. 
Nice for a statesman, too, 347. 

of no vile hold, 50. 

sharp quillets of the law, 65. 
Nicely sanded floor, 346. 
Nick Machiavel, 218. 

old, 218. 
Night, an atheist half believes a 
God by, 264. 

and storm, 472. 

another such a, 69. 

attention still as, 175. 

azure robe of, 496. 

bed by, 346. 

black it stood as, 177. 

chaos and old, 172. 

cheek of, 77. 

danger's troubled, 441. 

darkens the streets, 172. 

day brought back my, 206. 

descending, 291. 

deserts the, 193. 

eldest, and chaos, 178. 

empty-vaulted, 195. 

endless, 330. 

fair good, to all, 447. 

filled with music, 532. 

follows the day, 104. 

for the morrow, 495. 

give not a windy, 135. 

hideous, making, 105, 292. 

how beautiful is, 426. 

in Russia, 23. 

in the collied, 32. 

joint labourer, 100. 

meaner beauties of the, 141. 



Index. 



7ii 



Night, naughty, to swim in, 121. 

of cloudless climes, 481. 

of sorrow, 163. 

of the grave, 359. 

of waking, 448. 

peaceful, 335. 

pilot 't is a fearful, 502. 

sable goddess, 261. 

shades of, 184. 

silver lining on the, 195. 

so full of fearful dreams, 69. 

Sylvia in the, 19. 

that first we met, 502. 

that fordoes me, 130. 

that slepen alle, 1. 

that walks by, 196. 

train of, 185. 

unto night, 547. 

vast and middle of the, 102. 

wings of, 532. 

witching time of, 114. 

womb of uncreated, 175. 

world in love with, 79. 
Night's black arch, 385. 

candles are burnt out, 80. 

dull ear, piercing the, 64. 
Night-flower sees but one moon, 

. .454- 
Nightingale, all but the wakeful, 
182. 

an 't were any, 32. 

no music in the, 19. 

was mute, 509. 
Nightingale's high note, 481. 

song in the grove, 359. 
Nightly pitch my moving tent, 438. 

to the listening earth, 253. 
Nights are longest, 23. 

are wholesome, 100. 

profit of their shining, 29. 

short as are the, 148. 

such as sleep o', 83. 

to wast long, 12. 
Nile, all the worms of, 133. 

with bulrushes, dam up the 
waters of the, 516. 
Nimshi, son of, 543. 
Nine days' wonder, 608. 

moons wasted, 123. 
Ninety-eight, who fears to speak 

of, 511. 
Ninny, Handel 's but a, 305. 
Ninth part of a hair, 57. 
Niobe all tears, 102. 

of nations, 474. 
Nipping and eager air, 104. 
No better than you should be, 608. 

creature smarts so little, 286. 

hammers fell, 460. 

love lost between us, 60S. 



Nomatterwhat Berkeley said, 490. 

more like my father, 102. 

more of that, 130. 

more of that Hal, 56. 

new thing under the sun, 557. 

pent-up Utica, 443. 

radiant pearl, 371. 

reckoning made, 107. 

sooner looked but they sighed, 
43- 

sooner metbut they looked, 43. 

sooner sighed but they asked 
one another the reason, 43. 

workman steel, 460. 
Noah's ark, rolls of, 222. 
Nobility, wind and his, 55. 
Nobility's true badge, 75. 
Noble and approv'd good mas- 
ters, 123. 

army of martyrs, 578. 

by heritage, 244. 

in a death so, 194. 

in reason, 109. 

mind o'erthrovvn, 112. 

of nature's own creating, 311. 

origin, gift of, 413. 

to be good, 517, 599. 
Nobler in the mind, no. 

loves and cares, 419. 
Nobles and heralds, 242. 
Noblest, feels the, 516. 

mind contentment has, 10. 

Roman of them ail, 87. 

work of God, 274. 
Nobody, I care for, 358. 
Nod, gives the, 298. 

ready with every, 69. 
Nodded at the helm, 292. 
Nodding horror, 194. 

violet grows, 33. 
Nodosities of the oak, 355. 
Nods and becks, 201. 
Noise like of a hidden brook, 430. 

of conflict, 186. 

of endless wars, 178. 

of folly, shunn'st the, 203. 

of water in mine ears, 69. 
Noiseless fabric sprung, 460. 

foot of time, 45. 

tenor of their way, 334. 

wing, sail is as a, 472. 
None are so desolate, 469. 

but the brave, 220. 

knew thee but to love thee, 529. 

like pretty Sally, 244. 

on earth above her, 400. 

speak daggers to her but use, 
114. 

think the great unhappy, 267. 

who bless us, 469. 



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Index. 



None whom we can bless, 469. 

without hope e'er loved, 324. 
Nonsense and sense, 223. 
Nook, seat in poetic, 492. 
Nooks to lie in, 492. 
Noon, blaze of, 193. 

of thought, 378. 

to dewy eve, 173. 
North, beauties of the, 250. 
Northern main, 294. 
North-wind's breath, 496. 
Norval, my name is, 341. 
Nose, anon he gave his, 54. 

down his innocent, 39. 

entuned in hire, 1. 

jolly red nose, 588. 

sharp as a pen, 63. 

spectacle on, 41. 

wipe a bloody, 302. 
Noses, over men's, 76. 
Nostril that ever offended, 21. 

upturned his, 190. 
Nostrils, breath is in his, 562, 
Not in the vein, 70. 

to know me, 184. 

what we wish, 340. 

with me is against me, 570. 
Note, deed of dreadful, 94. 

deserving, 159. 

means to be of, 132. 

of praise, 332. 

of preparation, 64. 

of time, we take no, 261. 

of, when found make a, 538. 

that swells the gale, 335. 

which Cupid strikes, 161. 
Notes by distance made more 
sweet, 339. 

chiel 's amang ye takin', 386. 

thick-warbled, 192. 

thy liquid, 205. 

thy once lov'd poet sung, 296. 

with many a winding bout, 
202. 
Nothing before, nothing behind, 

433- 
but well and fair, 194. 
can cover his high fame, 149. 
can need a lie, 155. 
can touch him further, 94. 
can we call our own, 53. 
earthly could surpass, 485. 
either good or bad, 109. 
extenuate, 130. 
half so sweet, 455. 
having, yet hath all, 141. 
he, common did, 219. 
if not critical, 125. 
ill can dwell, 18. 
in his life became him, 89. 



Nothing, infinite deal of, 35. 

is but what is not, 89. 

is here for tears, 194. 

is there to come, 167. 

long, by starts and, 223. 

of him that doth fade, 17. 

the world knows, 515. 

to him falls early, 147. 

true but heaven, 458. 
Nothingness, day of, 477. 

pass into, 498. 
Nothings, laboured, 281. 
Noticeable man, 402. 
Nought shall make us rue, 51. 

so vile that on the earth, 78. 
Nourisher in life's feast, 93. 
Nourishment called supper, 29. 
Novelty, pleased with, 360. 
Now and forever, 462. 

came still evening on, 182. 

eternal, 167. 

fitted the halter, 241. 

I lay me down to sleep, 600. 

's the day and now 's the hour, 
388. 
Nowher so besy a man, 2. 
Noyance or unrest, 310. 
Nullum quod tetigit, 319. 
Number our days, teach us to, 550. 

stand more for, 23. 
Numbers, add to golden r 165. 

divinity in odd, 21. 

harmonious, 179. 

lisp'd in, 286. 

magic, 256 
Nun, the time is quiet as a, 409. 
Nuptial bower, 1 led her to the, 

188. 
Nurse a flame, 443. 

nature's soft, 61. 

of arms, 343. 

of manly sentiment, 353. 

of young desire, 357. 
Nursed a dear ga/.elle, 452. 
Nursing her wrath, 385. 
Nutmeg-graters, rough as, 260. 
Nutrition, to draw, 272. 
Nymph a Naiad, 448. 

in thy orisons, 111. 
Nympha pudica Deum vidit et • 

erubuit, 163. 
Nympholepsy of fond despair, 474. 
Nymphs, but tell me, 435. 

O love O fire, 517. 
O me no O's, 613. 
Oak, bend a knotted, 256. 

hardesL-timber'd, 67. 

hollow, our heritage, 459. 
Oaks from little acorns, 393. 



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713 



Oar, spread the thin, 273. 
Oars, with tailing, 219. 
Oath he never made, break an, 
217. 

good mouth-filling, 57. 

he that imposes an, 216. 
Oaths, full of strange, 41. 
Obdured breast, 176. 
Objects of all thought, 407. 
Obligation to posterity, 381. 
Obliged by hunger, 286. 
Obliging, so, ne'er obliged, 287. 
Oblivion, razure of, 25. 

take their daily birth, 414. 
Oblivious antidote, 98. 
Obscene wings, 432. 
Obscure grave, 53. 

palpable, 175. 
Obscures the show of evil, 36. 
Observance, breach than the, 104. 

special, 112. 
Observation, crammed with, 40. 

penny of, 30. 

smack of, 49. 

with extensive view, 317. 
Observations which ourselves we 

make, 276. 
Observed of all observers, 112. 
Observer, waited six thousand 

years for an, i6d. 
Observers, observed of all, 112. 
Obstinate questionings, 421. 
Obstruction, to lie in cold, 24. 
Occasion, mellowing of, 30. 

courage mounteth with, 49. 
Occasions and causes, 65. 
Occupation 's gone, 129. 
Ocean, deep and dark blue, 476. 

deep bosom of the, 68. 

I have loved thee, 476. 

leans against the land, 343. 

like the round, 426. 

of truth, 237. 

on life's vast, 272. 

to the river, 482. 

upon a painted, 430. 
Ocean's mane, 501. 

melancholy waste, 513. 
Ocular proof, 129. 
Odd numbers, divinity in, 21. 
Odds, facing fearful, 511. 
Odious, comparisons are, 143, 156. 

in woollen, 277. 
Odorous, comparisons are, 27. 
Odour, stealing and giving, 46. 

sweet and wholesome, 248. 
Odours crushed are sweeter, 400. 

from the spicy shrub, 1S8. 

when violets sicken. 495. 
Off with his head, 69, 248. 



Offence, detest the, 293. 

forgave the, 224. 

from amorous causes, 284. 

is rank, 114. 

what dire, 284. 
Offender, hugged the, 224. 

love the, 293. 
Offending, front of my, 123. 
Offends at some unlucky time, 288. 
Office and affairs of love, 26. 

clear in his great, 90. 

hath but a losing, 60. 

insolence of, in. 

to speak patience, 28. 
Officer of mine, never more be, 126. 
I Offices of prayer and praise, 422. 

Officious innocent sincere, 318. 
' Offspring of heaven, 179. 

source of human, 183. 
Oft in the stilly night, 457. 

invited me, 124. 

invok'd, 190. 

the wisest man, 403. 
Oh no we never mention her, 502. 
Oil of joy for mourning, 564. 

unprofit ably burns, 368. 
Oily man of God, 311. 
Ointment of the apothecary, 559. 
Old age comes on apace, 359. 

age is beautiful, 418. 

age of cards, 278. 

age serene and bright, 408. 

arm-chair, 537. 

authors to read, 588. 

Belerium, 294. 

familiar faces, 429. 

father antic the law, 54. 

fieldes, out of the, 4. 

friends are best, 152. 

friends to trust, 5S8. 

Grimes is dead, 526. 

iron rang, 214. 

love for new, 140. 

man, despised, 120. 

man do but die, what can an, 
507. 

man eloquent, 205. 

men fools, young men think. 
602. 

men shall dream dreams, 565. 

men's dream, 222. 

Nick, 2t8. 

oaken bucket, 451. 

odd ends. 69. 

pippins toothsomest, 588. 

soldiers surest, 588. 

song of Percy, 14. 

tale and often told, 446. 

Time is still a-flying, 158. 

times of, 405. 



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Index. 



Old wine to drink, 588. 

wine wholesomest, 58b. 

wood to burn, 588. 
Old-fashioned poetry, 153. 
Old-gentlemanly vice, 487. 
Oliver, Rowland for an, 590. 
On Stanley on, 447. 

with the dance, 471. 

ye brave, 441. 
Once in doubt, 128. 

lov'd poet, 296. 

more unto the breach, 63. 

more upon the waters, 470. 

to be resolved, 128. 
One and inseparable, 462. 

beloved face, 482. 

dropping eye, 101. 

fair Spirit, 475. 

fell swoop, 97. 

genius fit, 280. 

kind kiss, 312. 

led astray, 203. 

man's will, 16. 

man's wit, 601. 

more unfortunate, 506. 

morn a Peri, 452. 

morn I missed him, 334. 

native charm, 346. 

pair of English legs, 63. 

science only, 280. 

that feared God, 543. 

that hath, unto every, 569. 

thought of thee, 293. 

touch of nature, 74. 

verse for sense, 215. 

was beautiful, 482. 
Onward, steer right, 206. 

upward, 524. 
Ope, murder hath broke, 93. 

the purple testament. 53. 

the sacred source, 329. 
Open as day, 62. 

locks whoever knocks, 96. 

rebuke is better, 556. 
Opening paradise, 335. 
Opes the palace of eternity, 194. 
Ophiucus huge, 177. 
Opinion, error of, 376. 

no way approve his, 48. 

of Pythagoras, 48. 

of his own, still, 219. 

pay for his false, 219. 

scope of mine, 100. 
Opinions, back their own, 484. 

between two, 543. 

golden, I have bought, 91. 

stiff in, 223. 
Opportunity, servile, 413. 
Oppression, rumour of, 360. 
Oppressor's wrong, in. 



Optics sharp it needs, 381. 

turn their, in upon 't, 218. 
Oracle, I am Sir, 35. 

of God, 170. 

pronounced wisest, 192. 
Oracles are dumb, 204. 
Orations, make no long, 381. 
Orator, I am no, 86. 
Orators repair, the famous, 192. 

very good, 43. 
Orb in orb, 187. 

of one particular tear, 135. 

of song, mighty, 422. 

there is not the smallest, 38. 
Orbed maiden, 494. 
Orchard, sleeping within mine, 

106. 
Ordained of God, 573. 

the Sabbath, 536. 
Order, decently and in, 574. 

gave each thing view, 71. 

in variety, 294. 

is Heaven's first law, 274. 

of your going, 95. 

this matter better in France, 
326. 
Ore, new-spangled, 200. 
Organ, most miraculous, no. 
Orient beams, 183. 

pearl, sowed the earth with, 
184. 
Original and end, 320. 
Orion, bands of, 545. 
Orisons, nymph, in thy, in. 
Ormus and of Ind, 173. 
Ornament, foreign aid of, 309. 

of a meek and quiet spirit, 577. 

of beauty, 135. 

to his profession, 137. 
Ornate and gay, 193. 
Orpheus, harp of, 207. 

soul of, 203. 
Orthodox, prove theirdoctrine, 213. 
Orthodoxy is my doxy, 595. 
Othello's occupation 's gone, 129. 

visage in his mind, 125. 
Others apart sat on a hill, 176. 

should build for him, 405. 

we know not of, in. 
Ounce of civet, 122. 
Our acts our angels are, 147. 
Oursels, to see, 386. 
Ourselves are at war, 147. 
Out brief candle, 98 

damned spot, 97. 

from the land of bondage, 450. 

of house and home, 60. 

of old bookes, 4. 

of old fieldes, 4. 

of sight, out of mind, 5, 14. 



Index. 



715 



Outbreak of a fiery mind, 108. 
Out-herods Herod, 112. 
Outlives in fame, 248. 
Out-paramoured the Turk, 121. 
Outrun the constable, 215. 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus ' 

and of Ind, 173. 
Outside, swashing, 39. 

what a goodly, 36. 
Outvenoms, whose tongue, 133. 
Out-vociferize even sound, 243. 
Outward and visible sign, 579. 

form and feature, 436. 
Over the hills and far away, 301 
Overcome but half his foe, 173. 

evil with good, 573. 
Overcomes by force, 173. 
Overpowering knell, 489. 
Overthrow, purpos'd, 135. 
Over-violent or over-civil, 223. 
Owe no man anything, 573. 
Owed, dearest thing he, 89. 
Owl, hawk'd at by a mousing, 93. ! 

that shrieked, 92. 
Owlet Atheism, 432. 
Own, do what I will with mine, 568. 

soul is his, 64. 
Ox goeth to the slaughter, 552. 

knoweth his owner, 561. 
Oxen, drives fat, 322. 
Oxenforde, Clerk ther was of, 2. 
Oyster crossed in love, 383. 

't was a fat, 294. 

the world 's mine, 21. 

unwholesome to eat an, 5S7. 

Pace, this petty, 98. 
Pacing through the forest, 43. 
Pack, as a huntsman his, 348. 
Pagan horn, 291. 

suckled in a creed, 410. 
Page, destined, 395. 
Pageant, insubstantial, 18. 
Paid dear for his whistle, 316. 

well, that is well satisfied, 38. 
Pain, akin to, 532. 

and anguish wring the brow, 

. 447- 
die of a rose in aromatic, 270. 
fiery throbbing, 319 
heart that never feels a, 324. 
in company with, 419. 
it was to drown, 69. 
labour we delight in physics, , 

93-. 
one, is lessened by another's 
anguish, 76. 

sigh yet feel no, 458. 

smile in, 266. 

stranger yet to, 328 j 



Pain, sweet is pleasure after, 220. 

tender for another's, 328. 

though full of, 175. 

throbs of fiery, 319. 

to the bear, 511. 
Painful vigils keep, 291. 
Pains, gave me for my, 124. 

grow sharp, when, 379. 

man of pleasure is a man of, 
266. 

of love be sweeter far, 229. 

pleasure in poetic, 361. 
Paint an inch thick, 118. 

like Nature, 303. 

the laughing soil, 460. 

the lily, 50. 

them, he best can, 294. 
Painted Jove, 224 

ocean, upon a, 430. 

ship, idle as a, 430. 

trifles, seeks, 337. 
Painter dips his pencil, 493. 

flattering, 347. 

Nature's sternest, 467. 
Painting, than, can express, 257. 
Palace and a prison, 473. 

in such a gorgeous, 79. 

of eternity, 194. 

of the soul, 469. 
Palaces, gorgeous. 18. 

mid pleasures and, 500. 
Pale cast of thought, 111. 

his uneffectual fire, 107. 

jessamine, 200. 

passion loves, 148. 

prithee why so, 157, 

unripened beauties, 250. 
Pale-faced moon, 55. 
Palinurns nodded, even, 292. 
Pall Mall, shady side of, 381. 

sceptred, 203. 
Palls upon the sense, 250. 
Palm, bear the, 82. 

itching, 86. 

like some tall, 460. 
Palmer's weed. 195. 
Palmy state of Rome, 100. 
Palpable and familiar, 436. 
hit, 119. 

obscure, 175. 
Palsied eld, 24. 
Palter in a double sense, 99. 
Pampered menial, 372. 
Pan to Moses, 291. 
Pang as great as when a giant 
dies, 24. 
imbues with a new colour, 473. 
that rends the heart, 349. 
Pangs and fears, 72. 
image of the, 424. 



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Index, 



Pangs of despised love, in. 

of guilty power, 319. 

the wretched find, 477. 
Pansies for thoughts, 117. 
Pansy freak'd with jet, 200. 
Pantaloon, slipper'd, 41. 
Panteth, the hart, after the water- 
brooks, 548. 
Panting time, 318. 
Pants for glory, 289, 344. 

for twenty-one, 288. 
Paper, portion of uncertain, 487. 
Paper-bullets of the brain, 26. 
Paper-credit, blest, 278. 
Paper-mill, built a, 67. 
Papers in each hand, 285. 
Paradisaical pleasures, 336. 
Paradise beyond compare, 438. 

destroy their, 329. 

heavenly, is that place, 139. 

how grows in, 503. 

milk of, 434. 

of fools, 180, 609. 

opening, to him are, 335. 

to what we fear, 24. 

walked in, 512. 
Parallel, admits no, 304. 

none but himself can be his, 

304- 
Parchment undo a man, 66. 
Pard, bearded like the, 41. 
Pard-like spirit, 494. 
Pardon, they ne'er, 228. 
Pardoned all except her face, 490. 
Parent from the sky, 287. 

of good, 185. 
Parents passed into the skies, 366. 

were the Lord knows who, 
240. 
Parfit gentil knight, 1. 
Paris, for French of, 1. 
Parish church, way to, 41. 

me no parishes, 613. 

wide w r as his, 2. 
Parlour, party in a, 409. 
Parmaceti for an inward bruise, 55. 
Parson bemus'd in beer, 285. 

power, oh for a forty, 490. 

there goes the, 366. 
Part, kind kiss before we, 312. 

of all that I have met, 518. 

of being, 472. 

of sight, became a, 478. 

so he plays his, 41. 
Partake the gale, 276. 
Parted, when we two, 466. 
Parthenon, wears the, 527. 
Partial, we grow more, 276. 
Participation of divineness, 138. 

of office, 377. 



Parting day dies, 473. 

day linger, 463. 

guest, speed the, 299. 

is such sweet sorrow, 78. 

was well made, 87. 
Partitions, thin, 221, 271. 
Partly may compute, 386. 
Parts, all his gracious, 50. 

allure thee, 275. 

of one stupendous whole, 271. 
Party, gave up to, 347. 

in a parlour, 409. 

is the madness of many, 297. 
Pass by me as the idle wind, 87. 

into her face, 404. 

into nothingness, 498. 

my imperfections, 393. 
Passages that lead to nothing, 336. 
Passed in music out of sight, 518. 
Passeth show, that which, 101. 
Passing fair, is she not, 19. 

from the earth, 420. 

rich with forty pounds, 345. 

strange, 't was, 124. 

sweet is solitude, 366. 

the love of women, 542. 

thought, like a, 388. 

tribute of a sigh, 334. 
Passion dies, till our, 165. 

govern my, 238. 

haunted me like a, 406. 

is the gale, 272. 

pale, loves, 148. 

ruling, 277, 278. 

to tatters, 112. 

towering, 119. 
Passion's slave, 113. 
Passionate intuition, 424. 
Passions fly with life, 426. 
Passiveness, wise, 416. 
Past all surgery, 126. 

bury its dead, 530. 

our dancing days, 77. 

unsighed for, 408. 
Paste and cover to our bones, 53. 
Pastime and our happiness, 418. 
Pastors, as some ungracious, 103. 
Pastures and fresh woods, 200. 

lie down in green, 547. 
Patch grief with proverbs, 28. 
Patches, shreds and, 116. 
Pate, beat your, 297, 367, 
Path motive guide, 320. 

of dalliance treads, 103. 

of Milton, 410. 

of sorrow, 369. 

of the just, 552. 

to heaven, 196. 
Pathless groves, 148. 

woods, pleasure in the, 47s- 



Index. 



717 



Paths are peace, all her, 552. 

lead to woman's love, 149. 

of glory, 332. 

of joy and woe, 315. 
Patience, all men's office to speak, 
28. 

and sorrow strove, 121. 

flour of winy, 4. 

on a monument, 47. 

preacheth, 155. 

stubborn, 176. 
Patient humble spirit, 165. 

merit of the unworthy takes, 
in. 

must minister to himself, 98. 

search and vigil long, 485. 
Patines of bright gold, 38. 
Patriot truth, 461. 
Patriot's boast, 342. 
Patriotism would not gain force, 

whose, 321. 
Patriots, worthy, dear to God, 207. 
Patron and the jail, 317. 
Pattern to posterity, 599. 
Paul, by the apostle, 71. _ 

robbing Peter he paid, 6. 
Pause, an awful, 261. 

for a reply. 85. 

nature made a, 261. 
Pavement, heaven's, 173. 
Pawing to get free, 187. 
Pay, double debt to, 346. 

if I can't, 140. 
Pays, base is the slave that, 62. 
Peace, a charge, in, 224. 

all her paths are, 552. 

and competence, 274. 

and health, 335. 

and quiet, 232. 

and rest can never dwell, 
170. 

be within thy walls, 551. 

carry gentle, 73. 

first in, 393. 

for ever hold his, 579. 

hath her victories, 205. 

inglorious arts of, 219. 

its ten thousands slays, 356. 

no good war or bad, 316. 

nor ease the heart can know, 

37?- 
nothing so becomes a man in, 

63. 
on earth, good will, 570. 
only a breathing time, 351. 
piping time of, 68. 
slept in, 73. 
so sweet, 375. 
soft phrase of, 123. 
solitude and calls it, 479. 



Peace, star of, 441. 

to be found in the world, 458. 

unto* the wicked, 553. 

was slain, thrice my, 261. 

we to gain our, 94. 

weak piping time of, 68. 

when there is no, 564. 
Peaceably if we can, 397. 
Peaceful hours, 368. 
Peacemaker, If is the only, 43. 
Peak in Darien, 499 

to peak, far along from, 472. 
Pealing anthem, 332. 
Pearl and gold, barbaric, 174. 

chain of all virtues, 146. 

for carnal swine, 216. 

heaps of, 69. 

if all their sand were, 19. 

of great price, 567. 

orient, 139, 184. 

quarelets of, 158. 

radiant, 371. 

threw away a, 131. 
Pearls at random strung, 380. 

before swine, 567. 

did grow, how, 158. 

that were his eyes, 17. 

who search for, 22 S. 
Peasant, belated, 173. 

toe of the, 118. 
Peasantry, country's pride, 344. 
Pebbles, children gathering, 192. 
Pebbly spring, 436. 
Peep and botanize, 417. 

at such a world, 363. 

into glory, 211. 

of day, 159. 

wizards that, 562. 
Peeps beneath the thorn, 346. 
Peer, rhyming, 285. 
Peerless light, 182. 
Pegasus, a fiery. 58. 
Pellucid streams, 40S. 
Pelop's line, 203. 

Pelting of this pitiless storm, 120. 
Pen, bring the, 505. 

glorious by my, 169. 

is mightier than the sword, 

5°5- 

nose sharp as a. 63. 

of a ready writer, 548. 

product of a scoffer's, 423. 
Penalties of idleness, 292. 
Penance, calls us to. 174. 
Pendent world, 24, 179. 
Pendulum, man thou, 474. 
Penetrable stuff, 115. 
Penned it down, so I, 231. 
Penny in the urn of poverty, 501. 

of observation, 30. 



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Index. 



Pens a stanza, 285. 

blazoning, 125. 
Pension, lose his, 245. 
Pensioner of an hour, 261. 
Pensive beauty, 440. 

discontent, 12. 

poets painful vigils keep, 291. 
Pent, here in the body, 438. 

long in populous city, 189. 
Pentameter, in the, 433. 
Penthouse, hang upon his, 88. 
Pent-up Utica, 443. 
Penury and imprisonment, 24. 
People in the gristle, 352. 

marry ancient, 209. 

of the skies, 141. 

plurisy of, 150. 

the sunbeams, 202. 

thy people shall be my, 542. 

unpleasant, at leaving, 487. 
People's prayer, 222. 

right maintain, 461. 
Peopled, the world must be, 26. 
Peor and Baalim, 204. 
Peppercorn, I am a, 57. 
Pepper'd the highest, 348. 
Perchance the dead, 473. 

to dream, no. 
Perched and sat, 525. 
Perdition catch my soul, 127. 
Perfect day, unto the, 552. 

love casteth out fear, 578. 

woman nobly planned, 404. 
Perfection of reason, 233. 

pink of, 350. 
Perfume on the violet, 50. 
Perfumed like a milliner, 54. 
Perfumes of Arabia, 97. 
Peri at the gate of Eden, 452. 
Peril in thine eye, 77. 
Perilous edge of battle, 171. 

shot of an elder gun, 64. 

stuff which weighs upon the 
heart, 98. 
Perils do environ, what, 214. 
Periods of time, frozen round in, 

177- 
Perish, all of genius which can, 
481. 

that thought, 249. 
Perished in the green, 523. 

Babylon hath, utterly, 414. 
Perjuria ridet, 78. 
Perjuries, lovers', 78, 225. 
Perked up in a glistering grief, 71. 
Permit to heaven, 191. 
Perpetual benediction, 421. 
Perplex and dash, 174. 
Perplex'd in the extreme, 131. 
Persian's heaven, 459. 



Personage, genteel in, 244. 

this goodly, 414. 
Persons, no respect of, 572. 
Persuaded in his ovrn mind, 573. 
Persuasion and belief, 424. 
Persuasive sound, 256. 
Perverts the prophets, 467. 
Pestilence and war, 177. 

that walketh, 550. 
Petar, hoist with his own, 116. 
Peter deny'd his Lord, 600. 

feared full twenty times, 409. 

I'll call him, 49. 
Peter's dome, that rounded, 527. 

keys some christened Jove 
adorn, 291. 
Petition me no petitions, 314,613. 
Petrifies the feeling, 387. 
Petticoat, feet beneath her, 157. 

tempestuous, 159. 
Petty pace, creeps in this, 98. 
Phalanx, in perfect, 172. 
Phantasma, like a, 83. 
Phantom of delight, 404. 
Phantoms of hope, 320. 
Phidias, young, 527. 
Philip and Mary on a shilling, 218. 
Philistines be upon thee, 542. 
Phillis, neat-handed, 201. 
Philosopher and friend, 276. 

that could endure the tooth- 
ache, 28. 
Philosophers have judged, 218. 

sayings of, 215. 
Philosophic mind, 422. 
Philosophic, Aristotle and his, 2. 
Philosophre, he was a, 2. 
Philosophy, adversity'ssweet milk, 
80. 

depth in, 136. 

divine, T97, 522. 

dreamt of in your, T07. 

false, and vain wisdom, 176. 

hast any, in thee, 42. 

I ask not proud, 442. 

inclineth to atheism, 136. 

is a good horse, 210. 

light of mild, 250. 

no, can lift, 408. 

search of deep, 166. 

teaching by examples, 258. 

triumphs easily, 210. 

will clip an angel's wings, 
498. t 
Phisike, gold in, 2. 
Phoebus 'gins arise, 132. 

what a name, 467. 
Phrase, fico for the, 20. 

grandsire, 76. 

measured, 405. 



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719 



Phrase of peace, 123. 

would be more german, 119. 
Physic pomp, take, 121. 

throw, to the dogs, 98. 
Physician heal thyself, 570. 
Physics pain, labour we delight 

in, 93. 
Pia mater, womb of, 30. 
Pick a pocket, 239. 
Picked up his crumbs, 609. 
Picking and stealing, 579. 
Picks yer pocket, 304. 
Pickwickian sense, 538. 
Picture, look here upon this, 115. 

placed the busts between, 259. 
Pictured urn, 330. 
Pictures, eyes make, 436. 

of silver, 556. 

savage, in Afric maps, 245. 
Piece, faultless, to see, 281. 
Piecemeal on the rock, 478. 
Piercing the night's dull ear, 64. 
Pierian spring, 280. 
Piety would not grow warmer, 321. 
Pigs squeak, naturally as, 212. 
Pike-staff, plain as a, 609. 
Pilfers wretched plans, 382. 
Pilgrim gray, honour comes a, 339. 

steps in amice gray, 192. 
Pilgrimage, in his, 19. 
Pilgrimages, folk to gon on, 1. 
Pilgrim-shrines, 529. 
Pillar of fire by night, 541. 

of state, 175. 
Pillared firmament, 197. 

shade, 190. 
Pillory, window like a, 217. 
Pillow hard, finds the down, 133. 
Pilot, 't is a fearful night, 502. 

of the Galilean lake, 200. 

that weathered the storm, 398. 
Pin's fee, life at a, 105. 
Pincers tear, where the, 268. 
Pinch, one, a lean-fac'd villain, 25. 
Pinches, where the shoe. 583. 
Pindarus, house of, 205. 
Pine immovable infix'd, 177. 

to equal which the tallest, 171. 

with fear, 12. 
Pined and wanted food, 401. 
Pines, silent sea of, 433. 

thunder-harp of, 529. 
Pink and the pansy, 200. 

of courtesy, 79. 

of perfection, 350. 
Pinks that grow, 25. 
Pinto, Ferdinand Mendez, 256. 
Piny mountain, 436. 
Pious action we do sugar o'er, no. 
Pipe but as the linnets, 522. 



Pipe for Fortune's finger, 113. 
glorious in a, 485. 
to the spirit ditties, 498. 
Pipes and whistles, 41. 
Piping time of peace, 68. 
Pit, they '11 fill a, 58. 

whoso diggeth a, 556. 
Pitch, he that toucheth, 565. 

my moving tent, 438. 

which flies the higher, 65. 
Pitcher be broken, 560. 
Pith and moment, in. 

seven years', 123. 
Pitiful, 't was wondrous, 124. 
Pitiless storm, pelting o£,this, 120. 
Pity, challenge double, 13. 

gave ere charity began, 345. 

is akin to love, 238. 

is the straightest path, 149. 

't is 't is true, 108. 

leaf of, writ, 81. 

like a new-born babe, 90. 

melts the mind to love, 220. 

of it, Iago, the pity of it, 129. 

swells the tide of love, 263. 

tear for, he hath a, 62. 

that it was great, 55. 

the sorrows of a poor old man, 
372- 

then embrace, 273. 

upon the poor, 554. 
Place and wealth, get, 289. 

did then adhere, 91. 

dignified by the doer's deed, 45. 

everywhere his, 166. 

jolly, in times of old, 405. 

know it no more, 550. 

like home, 500. 

many a secret, 404. 

many a solitary, 409. 

mind is its own, 171. 

of rest, where to choose, 191. 

right man in the right, 525. 

stands upon a slippery, 50. 

that has known him, 544. 

towering in her pride of, 93. 

where honour 's lodged, 217. 

where man can die, 504. 

where the tree falleth, 559. 
Places, lines are fallen unto me 
in pleasant, 546. 

the eye of heaven visits, 52. 

which pale passion loves, 148. 
Plagiare among authors, 208. 
Plague of all cowards, 56. 

of both your houses, 79. 

of sighing and grief, 56. 

the inventor, 90. 

upon such backing, 56. 
Plagues, but of all, 398. 



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Index. 



Plain as a pike -staff, 609. 

as way to parish church, 41. 

in dress, 303. 

knight pricking on the, 10. 

living and high thinking, 413. 

of Marathon, 321. 

rules, few, 413. 

tale shall put you down, 56. 
Plan, not without a, 269. 

the simple, sufficeth them, 411. 
Planet, under a rhyming, 28. 
Planets in their pourse, 400. 
Plant, earth bears a, 443. 

fame is no, 200. 

fixed*like a, 272. 

of slow growth, 322. 

rare old, is the Ivy green, 538. 
Plants suck in the earth, 166. 

his footsteps in the sea, 369. 
Plato thou reasonest well, 251. 
Plato's retirement, 192. 
Play false, wouldst not, 89. 

good as a, 592. 

in the plighted clouds, 196. 

's the thing, no. 

life's poor, is o'er, 273. 

me no plays, 614. 

the Devil, 69. 

the fools with the time, 60. 

the woman, 97. 

to you is death to us, 232. 

with similes, 403. 
Played at bo-peep, 158. 

familiar with his hoary locks, 
501. 
Player, life 's a poor, 99. 
Players, men and womenmerely, 41. 
Playmates, I have had, 429. 
Plays round the head, 274. 

such fantastic tricks, 23. 
Plaything, some livelier, 273. 
Plea so tainted, 36. 
Plead lament and sue, 446. 

like angels, 90. 
Pleasant hast thou been, 542. 

in their lives, 542. 

in thy morning, 388. 

sure to see one's name in 
print, 466. 

thought, we meet thee like a, 
403- 

to severe, 226. 

to think on, 157. 

vices, 122. 
Pleasantness, ways of, 552. 
Please, certainty to, 399. 

surest to, 348. 

to live, 318. 
Pleased, I would do what I, 8. 

not the million, 109. 



Pleased to the last, 269. 

with a rattle, 273. 

with novelty, 360. 

with this bauble, 273. 
Pleasing anxious being, 334. 

dreadful thought, 251. 

dreams and slumbers, 447. 

memory of all he stole, 291. 

shade, 328. 
Pleasure after pain, sweet is, 220. 

all hope, 229. 

at the helm, 331. 

ease content, 274. 

frown at, 266. 

howe'er disguised, 317. 

in poetic pains, 361. 

in the pathless woods, 475. 

little, in the house, 372. 

man of, is a man of pains, 266. 

mixed reason with, 347. 

never to blend our, 406. 

no, where no profit grows, 44. 

of being cheated, 217. 

of love is in loving, 494. 

of the game, 242. 

praise all his, 259. 

reason's whole, 274. 

she was bent, on, 368. 

shock of, 501. 

sure in being mad, 230. 

take, some to, 277. 

to be drunk, 314. 

to the spectators, 511. 

treads upon the heels of, 256. 
Pleasure-dome, stately, 434. 
Pleasures and palaces, 500. 

are like poppies, 385. 

doubling his, 399. 

in the vale of pain, 450. 

of the present day, 315. 

pretty, might me move, 13. 

prove, all the, 15. 
Pledge our sacred honours, 376. 
Pledged to religion, 461. 
Pleiades, sweet influences of, 545. 
Plentiful lack of wit, 108. 
Plenty as blackberries, 56. 

o'er a smiling land, 334. 
Plighted clouds, 196. 
Plodders, continual, 29. 
Plot me no plots, 613. 

this blessed, this earth, 52. 
Plough deep, 316. 

following his, 405. 
Ploughman homeward plods, 332. 
Ploughshare o'er creation, 266. 

stern Ruin's, 386. 
Ploughshares, swords into, 561. 
Pluck bright honour, 55. 

from the memory, 98. 



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Pluck out the heart, 114. 

up drowned honour, 55. 

your berries, 199. 
Plucked his gown, 345. 
Plume of amber snuff-box, 285. 
Plummet, deeper than a, 18. 
Plump Jack, banish. 56. 
Plunged in accoutred as I was, 82. 
Plurisy of people, 150. 
Pocket, pick a, 239. 
Poem, himseif to be a true, 207. 

round and perfect, 529. 
Poet and the lover, 33. 

naturalist and historian, 319. 

once lo/'d, 296. 

soaring in the high reason of 
his fancies, 206. 

they had no, 290. 
Poet's brain, 142. 

darling, 403. 

eye in frenzy rolling, 34. 

lines, where go the. 536. 

pen turns them to shapes, 34. 
Poetess, maudlin. 285. 
Poetic child, meet nurse for a, 446. 

fields encompass me, 252. 

justice with lifted scale, 291. 

nook, seat in some, 492. 

pains, pleasure in, 361. 
Poetical, gods had made thee, 42. 
Poetry, cradled into, 494. 

of earth, 499. 

of speech, 474. 

old-fashioned, 153. _ 

somewhat like angling, 153. 
Poets are all who love, 516. 

are sultans, 165. 

are the hierophants, 441. 

feign of bliss, 67. 

forms of ancient, 436. 
• in our youth, 405. 

in their misery, 405. 

in three distant ages, 225. 

lose half the praise, 169. 

pensive, painful vigils keep, 
291. 

who made us heirs, 419. 

youthful, 202, 257, 
Point a moral, 317. 

his slowunmoving finger, 130. 

of all my greatness, 72. 

put too fine a. 9. 

thus 1 bore my, 56. 
Pointing at the skies, 279. 
Points, armed at all, 102. 

out an hereafter, 251. 

the meeting, 285. 

to yonder glade, 296. 

true to the kindred, 407. 
Poison for the age's tooth, 49. 

31 



Poison, one man's, 149. 
Poke, dial from his, 40. 
Pole, from Indus 10 the, 293. 

to pole, truth from, 253. 

true as the needle to the, 268. 

were I so tall to reach the, 255. 
Policy, honesty is the best, 606. 

kings are tyrants from, 354. 

turn him to any cause of, 62. 
i Polished idleness, 395. 
Politician, coffee makes the, wise, 
284. 
; Politics, than conscience with, 383. 
Pollutions, sun which passeth 

through, 139. 
Pomp and circumstance, 129. 

and glory of this world, 72. 

lick absurd, 113. 

of age, monumental, 414. 

of power, 332. 

sepulchred m such, 204. 

to flight, puts all the, 293. 
Pomps and vanity, 579. 
Ponderous and marble jaws, 105. 

axes rung, 460. 

woe, though a, 239. 
Pool, standing, 121. 
Poor always ye have with you, 571. 

and content, 12S. 

annals of the, 332. 

but honest, 45. 

considereth the, 548. 

exchequer of the, 52. 

for a bribe, too, 336. 

grind the faces of the, 562. 

have cried Caesar hath wept, 85. 

in thanks, 109. 

infirm weak and despised, 120. 

laws grind the, 343. 

makes me. indeed, 127. 

naked wretches, 120. 

pity upon the, 554. 

rich gifts wax, in. 

sorrows of a, old man, 372. 

the offering be, though, 391. 

thou found'st me. 347. 

to do him reverence, 86. 
Poorest man in his cottage, 323. 
Pope of Rome, more than the, 214, 
Popish Liturgy, 323. 
Poplar pale, edged with, 204. 
Poppies, pleasures are like, 385. 
Poppy nor mandragora, 128. 
Populous city pent, 189. 
Porcelain clay of humankind, 230. 

of human clay, 4S9. 
Porcupine, upon the fretful, 106. 
Port as meke as is a maid, 1. 

for men, 321. 

pride in their, 343. 

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Index. 



Port to imperial Tokay, 338. 
Portal we call death, 533. 
Portance in my travel's history, 

124. 
Portion of that around me, 518. 

of uncertain paper, 487. 
Portius, thy steady temper, 250. 
Ports and happy havens, 52. 
Posies, thousand fragrant, 15. 
Possess a poet's brain, 142. 

and to feel, 469. 
Possessed. I have, 478. 

with inward light, 436. 
Possessing all things, 432. 
Possession would not show, 28. 
Possest, less pleasing when, 328. 
Post of honour is a private sta- 
tion, 251. 
Posteriors of this day, 31. 
Posterity, contemporaneous, 601. 

done for us, what has, 381. 
Posy of a ring, 113. 
Pot, boil like a, 546. . 

death in the, 543. 

thorns under a, 558. 

three-hooped, 66. 
Potations, banish strong, 381. 

pottle deep, 126. 
Potent grave and reverend, 123. 
Pots of ale, size of, 212. 
Pouch, tester in, 20. 
Pouncet-box 'twixt his finger, 54. 
Poverty come, so shall thy, 552. 

depress'd, worth by, 318. 

distrest by, 319. 

I pay thy, 80. ^ 

nor riches, neither, 557. 

not my will consents, 80. 

steeped me in, 130. 

urn of, 501. 
Powder, food for, 58. 

keep your, dry, 591. 
Power and pelf, 445. 

behind the throne, 322. 

dissevering, 198. 

fortv parson, 490. 

gray flits the shade of, 469. 

in fortune's, not now in, 215. 

intellectual, 423. 

is passing from the earth, 420. 

knowledge is, 137. 

like a pestilence, 493. 

of grace, 439. 

of thought, 480. 

o'er true virginity, 196. 

should take who have the, 411. 

taught by that, 348. 

that hath made us, 491. 

the giftie gie us, 386. 

to charm. 101. 



Power to thunder, Jove for his, 

7> 

which could evade, 484. 

which has dotted over the 
globe, 463. 
Powers that be, 573. 

that there are, 416. 

that will work for thee, 412. 
Practise to deceive, 447. 
Practised falsehood, 181. 
Prague's proud arch, 439. 
Praise blame love, 404. 

blessings and eternal, 419. 

damn with faint, 286. 

enough to fill the ambition 
of a private man, 361. 

if there be any, 575. 

love of, 266. 

named thee but to, 529. 

poets lose half the, 169. 

pudding against empty, 291. 

the Frenchman, 366. 

to be dispraised were no 
small, 191. 

undeserved, 290. 
Praising, the rose that all are, 502. 

what is lost, 45. 
Prattle to be tedious, 53. 
Pray goody please to moderate, 304. 

remained to, 345. 
Prayer all his business, 259. 

ardent opens heaven, 266. 

doth teach us all, 37. 

erects a house of, 612. 

for others' weal, 466. 

homes of silent, 522. 

imperfect offices of, 422. 

is the soul's sincere desire,438. 

making their lives a, 525. 

people's, 222. 
Prayers, feed on, 140. 
Prayeth best who loveth best, 431. 

well who loveth well, 431. 
Preached as never to preach again, 

231. 
Preacheth patience, 155. 
Preaching down a daughter's 

heart, 518. 
Precept upon precept, 563. 
Precincts of the cheerful day, 334. 
Precious bane, deserve the, 173. 

in the sight of, 550. 

jewel in his head, 39. 

life-blood, 208. 

ointment, 558. 

seeing to the eye, 30. 

stone, a gift is as a, 554. 
Precise in promise-keeping, 22. 
Predecessor, illustrious, 351. 
Pregnant hinges, 113. 



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723 



Prejudice is strong, 304. 
'Prentice han\ 389. 
Preparation, dreadful note of, 64. 
Prepare to shed them now, 86. 
Presage of his future years, 373. 
Presbyterian true blue, 213. 
Presence, full of light, 81. 

lord of thy, 49. 
Present fears, 89. 

in spirit, 573. 
Presentment, counterfeit, 115. 
Press, here shall the, the people's 
right maintain, 461. 

not a falling man, 72. 
Pressed its signet sage, 448. 
Presume not God to scan, 272. 
Pretender, no harm in blessing 
the, 305. 

who, is or who is king, 305. 
Pretty Fanny's way, 259. 

in amber, 285. 

to walk with, 157. 
Prevailed with double sway, 345. 
Prevaricate, thou dost, 214. 
Prey at fortune, 128. 

fleas that on him, 245. 

was man, his, 294. 
Priam's curtain, 60. 
Price, all men have their, 253. 

for knowledge, 300. 

of chains and slavery, 375. 

of wisdom, 545. 

pearl of great, 567. 
Prick the sides of my intent, 91. 
Pricking of my thumbs, 96. 

on the plaine, 10. 
Prickles on it, leaf had, 197. 
Pricks, kick against the, 572. 
Pride and haughtiness of soul, 250. 

blend our pleasure or, 406. 

fell with my fortunes, 39. 

goeth before destruction, 554. 

in their port, 343. 

modest, coy submission, 182. 

of former days, 453. 

of kings, 269. 

of place, towering in her, 93. 

pomp and circumstance, 129. 

rank pride, 250. 

reasoning pride, 270. 

spite of, 271. 

that apes humility, 427, 432. 

that licks the dus't, 287. 

that perished in his, 405. 

the vice of fools, 280. 
Priest, pale-eyed, 204. 
Priests tapers temples, 293. 
Primal duties shine aloft, 425. 

eldest curse, 114. 
Prime, April of her, 134. 



Primeval, forest, 532. 
Primrose, bring the rathe, 200. 

by a river's brim, 409. 

first-born child of Ver, 150. 

path of dalliance, 103. 

sweet as the, 346. 
Prince can make a belted knight, 
389. 

of darkness, 121, 157. 
Princedoms virtues powers, 185. 
Princeps copy, 395. 
Princes and lords may flourish, 344. 

find few real friends, 324. 

like to heavenly bodies, 136. 

merchants are, 563. 

privileged to kill, 356. 

put not your trust in, 551. 

sweet aspect of, 72. 

the death of, 84. 
Princes' favours, hangs on, 72. 
Principle, rebels from, 354. 
Principles, oftener changed, 268. 

with times, 276. 
Print, to see one's name in, 466. 

it, some said John, 231. 
Printing, caused, to be used, 67. 
Prior, here lies Matthew, 242. 
Priscian a little scratch'd, 31. 
Prison, palace and a, 473. 

stone walls do not a, make, 161. 
Prisoner, takes the reason, 88. 
Prison house, secrets of my, 106. 
Prithee why so pale, 157. 
Private credit is wealth, 599. 
Prive and apert, 3. 
Privileged beyond the common 

walk, 263. 
Prize, judge the, 202. 

me no prizes, 614. 

what we have, 27. 
Proceed ad infinitum, 245. 
Process of the suns, 519. 

such was the, 124. 
Proclaim him good and great, 252. 
Procrastination is the thief of 

time, 262. 
Proctors, prudes for, 520. 
Procuress to the Lords of Hell, 522. 
Prodigal, chariest maid is, 103. 

excess, to our own, 420. 

within the compass of a 
guinea, 46^. 
Prodigal's favourite, 420. 
Prodigality of nature, 68. 
Product of a scoffer's pen, 423. 
Profaned the God-given strength, 

446. 
Profanely, not to speak it, 112. 
Profession, debtor to his, 137. 
Professor of our art, 228. 



724 



Index, 



Profit of their shining nights, 29. 

no, where is no pleasure, 44. 
Progeny of learning, 382. 
Progressive virtue, 308. 
Prohibited degrees of kin, 218. 
Prologue, is this a, 113. 

in her face excuse came, 190. 
Prologues, happy, 89. 
Promethean fire, 31. 
Promise hope believe, 480. 

keep the word of, 99. 

of celestial worth, 268. 

of your early day, 460. 

to his loss, 580. 

who broke no, 279. 
Promised on a time, 12. 
Promise-keeping, precise in, 22. 
Promises of youth, 320. 

where most it, 45. 
Promotion cometh neither from 
the east, 549. 

sweat for, 40. 
Prompt the eternal sigh, 274. 
Proof, give me ocular, 129. 

sweetness yieldeth, 416. 
Proofs of holy writ, 128. 
Prop that doth sustain, 38. 
Propagate and rot, 272. 
Propensity of nature, 206. 
Proper man as one shall see, 32. 

study of mankind, 272. 

time to marry, 368. 
Prophet not without honour, 568. 
Prophet's word, 528. 
Prophetic of her end, 261. 

ray, tints with, 479. 

soul, O my, 106. 

strain, something like, 203, 
Prophets of the future, 491. 

perverts the, 467. 

Saul also among the, 542. 
Proportion, curtail'd of fair, 68. 

in small, 144. 
Propose, why don't the men, 502. 
Proposes, man, but God disposes, 5. 
Propriety, frights the isle from 

her, 126. 
Prose or rhyme, 170. 

run mad, 286. 

verse will seem, 235. 

what others say in, 289. 
Prospect of belief, within the, 88. 

of his soul, 28. 

pleases, though every, 461. 

so full of goodly, 207. 
Prospects brightening, 344. 
Prosper, surer to, 174. 
Prosperity, a jest's, 31. 

all sorts of, 247. 

could have assured us, 174. 



Prosperity, in the day of, 558. 

that hath been in, 4. 

within thy palaces, 551. 
Prosperum ac felix scelus, 142. 
Prostitute, puff the, 227. 
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies, 

39*- 
Protests too much, the lady, 113. 
Proteus rising from the sea, 410. 
Protracted life is protracted woe, 

3i7- 
Proud for a wit, too, 347. 

man's contumely, in. 

me no prouds, 613. 

philosophy, 442. 

to importune, too, 336. 

waves be stayed, 545. 

world, good-bye, 527. 
Proud-pied April, 135. 
Prove all things, 576. 

their doctrine orthodox, 213. 
Proverb and a by-word, 542. 
Proverb'd with a grandsire phrase, 

7 6 ' 
Proverbs, patch grief with, 28. 
Providence alone secures, 369. 

eternal, assert, 170. 

foreknowledge, 176. 

frowning, behind a, 369. 

in the fall of a sparrow, 119. 

their guide, 191. 
Provoke a saint, 277. 

the silent dust, 333. 
Prow, youth on the, 331. 
Prudent man looketh, 553. 
Prudes for proctors, 520. 
Prunello, leather or, 274. 
Pruning-hooks, spears into, 561. 
Psalms, purloin the, 467. 

turn'd to holy, 140. 
Public credit, dead corpse of, 463. 

flame nor private, 292. 

haunt, exempt from, 39. 

honour is security, 599. 

on the stage, 393. 

show,midnightdancesand,296. 

stockof harmlesspleasure, 321. 
Publishing our neighbour's shame, 

. 2 3°- 
Pudding against empty praise, 291. 
Puff the prostitute away, 227. 
Pulpit drum ecclesiastick, 212. 
Pulse of life stood still, 261. 
Pun, man who made a, 239. 
Punch, some sipping, 409. 
Punishment, back to thy, 177. 

greater than I can bear, 540. 

that women bear, 25. 
Pun-provoking thyme, 327. 
Pupil of the human eye, 459. 



Index. 



725 



Puppy-dogs, as maids of thirteen 

talk of, 49. 
Pure, all things are, 576. 

and eloquent blood, 143. 

as snow, 111. 

by being shone upon, 452. 

in thought as angels are, 400. 

real Simon. 249. 

religion breathing household 
laws, 413. 
Purge and leave sack, 59. 

off the baser fire, 174. 
Purged with euphrasy, 190. 
Puritans hated bear-baiting, 511. 
Purity and truth, 236. 

of grace, 479. 
Purloins the psalms, 467. 
Purple all the ground, 200. 

light of love, 329. 

testament, 53. 
Purpose nighty, never is o'ertook, 

. 96. 

infirm of, 93. 

one increasing, 519. 

shake my fell, 89. 

thy, firm, 262. 

time to every, 558. 
Purposes, airy, 172. 
Purpureal gleams, 408. 
Purse, put money in thy, 125. 

who steals my, 127. 
Pursue the triumph, 276. 
Pursues imaginary joys, 337. 
Pursuit of knowledge, 504. 
Push on keep moving, 394. 

us from our stools, 95. 
Put money in thy purse, 125. 

not your trust in princes, 551. 

out the light, 130. 

too fine a point, 9. 

you down, a plain tale, 56. 

your trust in God, 591. 
Puts on his pretty looks, 50. 
Putteth down one, 549. 
Puzzles the will, in. 
Pygmies are pygmies still, 265. 
Pygmy-body, fretted the, 221. 
Pyramid, star-y-pointing, 204. 
Pyramids doting with age, 209. 

in vales, 265. 

outbuilds the, 265. 

set off his memories, 149. 
Pyrrhic dance, 488. 

phalanx, where is the, 488. 
Pythagoras, opinion of, 48. 

Quaff immortality and joy, 185. 
Quality of mercy, 37. 

taste of your, 109. 

true-fix'd and resting, 84. 



Quantum o' the sin, 387. 
Quarelets of Pearl, 158 
Quarrel, entrance to a, 104. 

hath his, just, 66. 

in a straw, 116. 

is a very pretty, 382. 

justice of my, 66. 

sudden and quick in, 41. 
Quarrels interpose, 302. 
Quarry, sagacious of his, 190. 
Quarry-slave at night, 513. 
Quart of mighty ale, 3. 
Quean, extravagant, 383. 
Queen, looks a, 298. 

Mab, I see, 76. 

o' the May, 518. 

shall be as drunk as we, 314. 
Question, that is the, no. 
Questionable shape. 105. 
Questionings of sense, 421. 
Questions, ask me no, 350. 
Qiick bosoms, quiet to, 471. 
Quickly, well it were done, 90. 
Quickness, with too much, 277. 
Quiddity and entity, 213. 
Quiet and peace, 202. 

as a Nun, 409. 

be, and go angling, 154. 

rural, and retirement, 308. 

study to be, 576. 

to quick bosoms, 471. 
Quietus make, in. 
Quill from an angel's wing, 416. 
Quillets of the Law, 65. 
Quills upon the fretful porcupine, 

106. 
Quintilian stare and gasp, 205. 
Quips and cranks, 201. 

and sentences, 26. 
Quirks of blazoning pens, 125. 
Quiring to the young-eyed cheru- 

bins, 38. 
Quit this mortal frame, 295. 

your books, 417. 

yourselves like men, 542. 
Quiver full of them, 551. 
Quiver's choice, the devil hath not 

in all his, 491. 
Quoth the raven, 525. 
Rabelais' easy chair, 291. 
Race, boast a generous, 307. 

forget the human, 475. 

is not to the swift, 559. 

of man like leaves, 298. 

of other days, 526. 

of politicians, 246. 

rear my dusky, 519. 
Rachel weeping for her children 

566. 
Rack behind, leave not a, 18. 



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Index. 



Rack dislimns, 132. 

of a too easy chair, 292. 

of this tough world, 122. 

the value, 27. 
Radiance of eternity, 494. 
Radiant light, 196. 

pearl, no, 371. 
Radish, forked, 61. 
Rage, die here in a, 247. 

for fame, 373. 

heaven has no, 256. 

of the vulture, 478. 

strong without, 164. 

swell the soul to, 221. 
Raggedness, windowed, 120. 
Rags, clothe a man in, 555. 

man forget not though in, 337. 

virtue though in, 227. 
Rail on the Lord's anointed, 70. 
Railed on Lady Fortune, 40. 
Rain, gentle, from Heaven, 37. 

in the aire, 11. 

influence, bright eyes, 202. 

is over and gone, 561. 

may enter, 323. 

sweetest, make not fresh again, 
148. 

thirsty earth soaks up the, 166. 

upon the mown grass, 549. 
Rainbow, hue unto the, 50. 

colours of the, 196. 

to the storms of life, 479. 
Rainy morrow, 135. 
Raise what is low, 170. 
Rake among scholars, 367. 

woman is at heart a, 277. 
Raleigh, brave, spoke, 290. 
Ralph to Cynthia howls, 292. 
Ran on embattled armies, 193. 
Rancour of your tongue, 304. 
Random, shaft at, 450. 

word at, spoken, 450. 
Range with humble livers, 71. 
Rank, how shall we, 453. 

is but the guinea's stamp, 389. 

the offence is, 114. , 
Ranks and squadrons, 84. 
Rant and swear, 227. 

as well as thou, 119. 
Raphaels, talked of their, 348. 
Rapt soul sitting, 202. 
Rapture on the lonely shore, 475. 

to the dreary void, 477. 
Raptures do infuse, 169. 
Rapture-smitten frame, 439. 
Rare are solitary woes, 263. 

as a day in June, 539. 

Beaumont, 211. 

old plant, 538. 
Rarity of Christian charity, 506. 



Rascal counters, 87. 

hath given me medicines, 55. 
Rascals, lash the, 130. 
Rash, splenetive and, 119. 
Rashly importunate, 506. 
Rat, I smell a, 214, 610. 

in a hole, 247. 
Rated me in the Rialto, 36. 
Rathe primrose, bring the, 20a 
Rather than be less, 174. 
Rational hind Costard, 29. 
Rattle, pleased with a, 273. 
Rattling crags, 472. 
Ravage all the clime, 359. 
Raveli'd sleave of care, 93. 
Raven-down of darkness, 195. 
Ravens feed, he that doth the, 39. 
Ravishment, enchanting, 195. 
Raw in fields, 224. 
Ray serene, gem of purest, 333. 

whose unclouded, 278. 

with prophetic, 479. 
Rays, hide your diminished, 279. 

ten thousand dewy, 408. 
Raze out the written troubles, 98. 
Razors cried up and down, 373. 
Razure of oblivion, 25. 
Reach of art, beyond the, 280. 

of ordinary men, 405. 
Reaches of our souls, 105. 
Read and write comes by nature, 
27. 

aught that ever I could, 32. 

Homer once, 235. 

in story old, 446. 

learn to, slow, 305. 

mark and inwardly digest, 579. 

to doubt or read to scorn. 451. 
Reader had you in your mind, 417. 

last, reads no more, 535. 

wait a century for a, 160. 
Reading as was never read, 292. 

curst hard, 384. 

maketh a full man, 136. 

what they never wrote, 362. 
Ready with every nod, 69. 

writer, pen of a, 548. 
Realm, youth of the, 67. 
Reap as you sow, 217. 

the whirlwind, 565. 
Reap'd, his chin new, 54. 
Reaper whose name is Death, 530. 
Reaping, ever, something new, 519. 
Rear my dusky race, 519. 

the tender thought, 308. 
Rearward of a conquered woe, 135. 
Reason, a woman's, 19. 

can render a, 556. 

confidence of, 419. 

discourse of, 102. 



Index. 



727 



Reason, faith of, in the, 436. 

feast of, and flow of soul, 288 

firm the temperate will, 404. 

for my rhyme, 12. 

godlike, 116. 

how noble in, 109. 

is left free, 376. 

is staggered, 355. 

is the life of the law, 233. 

kills, itself, 207. 

men have lost their, 85. 

most sovereign, 112. 

my pleaded, i83. 

nor rhyme, 12, 42, 609. 

of his fancies, 206. 

of strength, if by, 549. 

of the case, 233. 

on compulsion, 56. 

perfection of, 233. 

prisoner, takes the, 88. 

ruling passion conquers, 278. 

sanctity of, 187. 

smiles from, flow, 1S9. 

stands aghast, 336. 

the card, 272. 

why I cannot tell, 240. 

with pleasure, mix'd, 347. 

worse appear the better, 174. 

would despair, 324. 
Reason's whole pleasure, 274. 
Reasons as two grains of wheat, 35. 

manifold, 436. 

plenty as blackberries, 56. 

why men drink, 235. 

why we smile, 503. 
Rebellion to tyrants, 593. 
Rebels from principle, 354. 
Reck the rede, 387. 
Reckless libertine, 103. 
Reckoning made, no, 107. 

so comes a, 301. 
Recks not his own rede, 103. 
Recoil, impetuous, 178. 
Recoils on itself, 189. 

affrighted Nature, 355. 
Record, weep to, 440. 
Recorded time, 98. 
Recorders, soft, 172. 
Recording angel, 326. 
Records, trivial fond, 107. 
Recover'd of the bite, 349. 
Red and white, 46. 

black to, 216. 

her lips were, 157. 

red rose, 390. 

right hand, 175. 

spirits and gray, 96. 
Rede, recks not his own, 103. 

ye tent it, 386. 
Reed, bruised, 563. 



Reel to and fro, 550. 
Reform it altogether, 112. 
Regardeth the life of his beast, 553. 
Regardless of their doom, 328. 
Regent of love-rhymes, 30. 
Region of smooth and idle dreams, 

208. 
Regions, force whole, 215. 

of thick-ribbed ice, 24. 
Regular as infant's breath, 435. 
Reherse as neighe as he can, 3. 
Reign, here we may, 171. 

in hell, better to, 171. 

of chaos and old night, 172. 

worth ambition, to, 171. 
Rejoice O young man, 5S0. 
Rejoicing in the east, 308. 
Related, to whom, 296. 
Relic of departed worth, 469. 
Relics and crucifixes, 218. 
Relief, thanks for this, 100. 
Relies, still on hope, 349. 
Religion, as rum and true, 487. 

blushing veils, 292. 

breathing household laws, 

413. 

humanities of old, 436. 

of which the rewards are dis- 
tant, 320. 

pledged to, 461. 

writers against, 351. 
Religious light, dim, 203. 
Relish of salvation, 115. 

of the saltness of time, 60. 
Reluctant amorous delay, 182. 
Remainder biscuit, 40. 
Remained to pray, 345. 
Remains, be kind to my, 226. 
Remedies in ourselves do lie, 45. 
Remedy, found out the, 23. 

things without all, 94. 

worse than the disease, 610. 
Remember an apothecary, I do,So. 

I cannot but, 97. 

I remember, 507, 509. 

Lot's wife, 571. 

Milo's end, 232. 

thy Creator, 560. 

thy swashing blow, 76. 
Remembered in flowing cups, 64. 

kisses after death, 521. 

knolling, 60. 
Remembering happier things, 519. 

without ceasing, 575. 
Remembers me his gracious parts, 

5°- 
Remembrance dear, 45. 

of the just, :6o, 580. 

of things past, 134. 
Remnant of uneasy light, 412. 



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hidex. 



Remorse farewell, 181. 
Remote from common use, 486. 

from man, 259. 

unfriended, 342. 
Remove, drags at each, 342. 
Removes, three, 316. 
Render to all their dues, 573. 

unto Caesar, 569. 
Rends thy constant heart, 348. 

pang that, the heart, 349. 
Renounce the devil, 579. 
Renowned Spenser, 211. 
Rent is sorrow, her, 154. 

see what a, 86. 
Repast and calm repose, 335. 
Repeateth a matter, 554. 
Repeating oft, believe 'em, 241. 
Repent at leisure, 256. 
Repentance, fierce, rears, 308. 

to her lover, 349. 
Repenting, after no, 205. 
Reply, I pause for a, 85. 
Report, evil and good, 575. 

me and my cause, 119. 

they bore to heaven, 262. 

thy words, 194. 
Repressing ill, 380. 
Reproved each dull delay, 345. 
Reputation, bubble, 41. 

dies at every word, 284. 

lost my, 126. 

written out of, 240. 
Request of friends, 286. 
Researches deep, 384. 
Resemblance hold, 164. 
Resentment glows, 298. 
Reserve thy judgment, 104 
Resign, few die and none, 377. 
Resignation gently slopes, 344. 
Resist the devil, 577. 
Resistless eloquence, 192. 
Resolution, armed with, 248. 

native hue of, in. 
Resolve itself into a dew, 101. 
Resolved, once to be, 128. 

to ruin or to rule, 222. 
Respect of persons, no, 572. 

upon the world, 34. 
Rest can never dwell, 170. 

dove found no, 540. 

gets him to, 64. 

her soul she is dead, 117. 

keep her from her, 98. 

perturbed spirit, 108. 

so may he, 73. 

take all the, 168. 
Restive sloth, 133. 
Restless ecstacy, 94. 
Restraint, luxurious by, 189. 
Restreine thy tonge, 4. 



Rests and expatiates, 270. 
Retired leisure, 202. 
Retirement, Plato's, 192. 

rural quiet, 308. 

short, 189. 
Retort courteous, 43. 
Retreat, loopholes of, 363. 
Return no more to his house, 544. 

to our muttons, 6. 

urges sweet, 189. 
Revelry and shout, 194. 

sound of, by night, 470. 
Revels, midnight, 173. 

now are ended, 18. 
Revenge at first though sweet, 189. 

couched with, 181. 

if not victory, 174. 

is virtue, 268. 

study of, 170. 

sweet is, 486. 
Revenges, brings in bis, ^8. 
Revenons a nos moulons, 6. 
Revenue, streams of, 463. 
Revered abroad, 390. 
Reverence, so pocr to do him, 86. 
Reveries so airy, 362. 
Review the scene, 531. 
Revolts from true birth, 78. 
Reward, sure, 256. 

virtue its own, 611. 
Rewards, bulfets and, 113. 
Re-word, matter will, 116. 
Rhetoric, gay, 198. 

ope his mouth for, 212. 
Rhetorician's rules, 212, 
Rheum, foolish, 50. 
Rhine, winding, 471. 
Rhinoceros, armed, 95. 
Rhone, arrowy, 472. 
Rhyme, beautiful old, 135. 

build the lofty, 199. 

dock the tail of, 536. 

hitches in a, 288. 

nor reason, 12, 42, 609. 

one for, 215. 

reason for my, 12. 

the rudder is, 214. 

write in, 215. 
Rialto, in the, 36. 

under the, 484. 
Riband bound, what this, 168. 

in the cap of youth, 117. 
Ribbed sea-sand, 425. 
Ribs, knock at my, 89. 

of death, under the, 197. 
Rich and rare, 454. 

and strange, 17. 

from very want, 335. 

gifts wax poor, in. 

haste to be, .557. 



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729 



Rich in good works, 576. 

in having such a jewel, 19. 

man to enter the kingdom, 568. 

men rule the law, 343. 

nor rare, 286. 

not gaudy, 104. 

poor and content is, 128. 

soils are often to be weeded, 
137- 

the treasure, 220. 

windows, 336. 

with forty pounds, 345. 

with the spoils of time, 333. 
Richard is himself again, 249. 
Richer for poorer, 579. 

than all his tribe, 131. 
Riches, best, 344. 

heapeth up, 548. 

in a little room, 16. 

make wings, 555. 

of heaven's pavement, 173. 

poverty nor, 557. 

that grow in hell, 173. 
Richmonds, there be six, 71. 
Riddle of the world, 272. 
Ride abroad, 368. 
Rider, steed that knows its, 470. 
Rides in the whirlwind, 252. 

upon the storm, 369. 
Ridicule, sacred to, 288. 

the test of truth, 596. 
Ridiculous, sublime to the, 375. 
Rigdom Funnidos, 243. 
Rigged with curses dark, 200. 
Right by chance, 367. 

divine of kings, 292. 

hand forget her cunning, 551. 

hands of fellowship, 575. 

man in the right place, 525. 

or wron£, our country, 461. 

place, right man in the, 525. 

there is none to dispute, 369. 

to dissemble, 391. 

whose life is in the, 273. 

words, how forcible are, 544. 
Righteous are bold as a lion, 557. 

forsaken, not seen the. 547. 

man regardeth the life of his 
beast, 553. 

overmuch, be not, 558. 
Righteousness and peace, 549. 

exalteth a nation, 553. 
Rights dare maintain, 380. 

of man, called the, 352. 
Rigour of the game, 429. 
Rill, broken in the, 452. 
Rills, thousand, 329. 
Ring in the Christ, 524. 

in the valiant man, 524. 

on her wand, 454. 

31* 



Ring out my mournful rhymes, 
524- 

out old shapes, 524. 

out the darkness, 524. 

out wild bells, 524. 

posy of a, 113. 

the fuller minstrel in, 524. 
Rings, all Europe, 206. 
Ripe and ripe, 40. 

scholar, and good one, 74. 
Ripened in our northern sky, 378. 

into faith, 424. 
Ripest fruit first falls, 52. 
Rise to the swelling of the voice- 
ful sea, 437. 

with the lark, 392. 
Risen on mid-noon, 185, 425. 
Rising all at once, their, 176. 

in clouded majesty, 182. 

suns that gild, 371. 
Rival all but Shakespeare, 439. 

in the light of day, 412. 
River at my garden's end, 245. 

glideth at his own sweet will, 
410. 

of his thoughts, 482. 

Rhine it is well known, 435. 

snow fall in the, 385. 
Rivers, by shallow, 15. 

cannot quench, 67. 

run to seas, 227. 
Rivets, hammers closing, 64, 248. 
Rivulet of text, 383. 
Rivulets dance, 404. 

myriads of, 521. 
Road, along a rough a weary, 388. 

lonesome, 430. 
Roam, they are fools who, 315. 

where'er I, 342. 
Roar, a lion in the lobby, 313. 

table on a, it 8. 

welcome to the, 470. 

you an 't were any nightin- 
gale, 32. 
Roast beef of old England, 315. 
Rob meof free Nature's grace, 311. 

me the exchequer, 58. 

was lord below, 411. 
Robbed, he that is, 129. 

that smiles, 125. 
Robbing Peter he paid Paul, 6. 
Robe, dew on his thin, 441. 

of clouds, 483. 

of night, 496. 
Robes and furred gowns, 122. 

garland and singing, 206. 

loosely flowing, 144. 

riche or fidel, 2. 
Robin-redbreast, call for the, 162. 
Robinson Crusoe, carcass of, 340. 



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Index. 



Robs the vast sea, 81. 
Rock, aerial, 423. 

fly from its firm base, 449. 

of the national resources, 463. 

pendant, 132. 

piecemeal on the, 478. 

the cradle of reposing age, 287. 

weed flung from the, 470. 
Rock-bound coast, 497. 
Rocket, rose like a, 375. 
Rocks and hills, 124. 

caves lakes, 177. 

pure gold, 19. 

throne of, 483. 

to soften, 256. 

whereon greatest men have 
wrecked, 191. 
Rod and thy staff, thy, 547. 

of empire, 333. 

of iron, rule with a, 578. 

reversed; 198. 

spare the, 216. 

spareth his, 553. 

to check. 419. 
Rogue, that is not fool is, 223. 
Roll darkling down, 317. 

down their golden sand, 461. 

of common men, 57. 

on dark blue ocean, 476. 
Rolled two into one, 392. 
Rolling clouds are spread, 345. 

stone, 6. 

year is full of thee, 310. 
Rolls of Noah's ark, 222. 
Roman fame, above all, 289. 

fashion, after the high, 132. 

holiday, to make a, 475. 

noblest, of them all, 87. 

senate long debate, 250. 

than such a, 87. 
Romance, shores of old, 403. 
Romans countrymen, 85. 

last of all the, 87. 
Romantic, folly grow, 277. 
Rome falls the world falls, 475. 

loved, more. 85. 

move the stones of, 86. 

palmy state of, 100. 

time will doubt of, 489. 

when at, do as the Romans 
do, 584. 
Romeo, wherefore art thou, 77. 
Ronne, to waite to ride to, 12. 
Roof fretted with golden fire, 109. 

to shrowd his head, 164. 

under the shady, 200. 
Room and verge enough, 331. 

civet in the, 367. 

for wit, heads so little no, 209. 

of my absent child, 50. 



Room, riches in a little, 16. 

who sweeps a, 155. 
Root, axe is laid unto the, 570. 

insane, 88. 

of all evil, 576. 

of the matter, 545. 

took an early, 509. 
Rooted sorrow, 98. 
Rosaries and pixes, 218. 
Rose, blossom as the, 563. 

by any other name, 77. 

flung, flung odours, 188. 

full-blown, 425. 

happy is the, distilled, 32. 

in aromatic pain, 270. 

is fairest, when 't is budding, 
449. 

is sweetest washed with morn- 
ing dew, 449. 

of summer, last, 455. 

of youth, 131. 

should shut, 498. 

that all are praising, 502. 

that lives its little hour, 514. 

without the thorn, 181. 
Rosebud set with thorns, 520. 
Rosebuds, crown us with, 566. 

filled with snow, 139. 

gather ye, 158. 
Rosemary for remembrance, 117. 
Roses and white lilies, 139. 

from your cheek, 325. 

four red, on a stalk, 70. 

in December, 466. 

make thee beds of, 15. 

scent of the, 455. 

she wore a wreath of, 502. 
Ross, Man of, 279. 
Rosy red, celestial, 188. 
Rot and rot, 40. 
Rots itself in ease, 106. 
Rotten in Denmark, 105. 
Rough, a weary road, 388. 

as nutmeg-graters, 260. 

quarries rocks and hills, 124. 
Rough-hew them how we will, 

119. 
Round, attains the upmost, 83. 

the slight waist, 477. 

unvarnished tale, 123. 
Roundabout, this great, 370. 
Rounded with a sleep, 18. 
Rouse a lion, 55. 
Rout, motley, 370. 

on rout, 179. 
Routed all his foes, 220. 
Rover, living a, 502. 
Roving, go no more a, 483. 
Rowland for an Oliver, 590. 
Ruat ccelum fiat voluntas tua, 156. 



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Ruat ccelum fiat justitia, 589. 
Rub, there 's the, 110. 
Rubies, where the, grew, 158. 

wisdom is above, 545. 

wisdom is better than, 552. 
Rudder is of verses, 214. 
Ruddy drops, dear as the, 331. 
Rude am I in my speech, 123. 

forefathers of the hamlet, 332. 

hand deface it, 411. 

militia swarms, 224. 

multitude, 31. 
Rudely, speke he never so, 3. 
Rue and euphrasy, 190. 
Rueful conflict, 411. 
Ruffles, sending them, 350, 605. 
Rugged Russian bear, 95. 
Ruin, beauteous, lay, 263. 

final, 266, 3S6. 

majestic though in, 175. 

or to rule the state, 222. 

prostrate the beauteous, 391. 

seize thee, 330. 

upon ruin, 179. 
Ruin's ploughshare, 3S6. 
Ruins of lona, 321. 

of the noblest man, 85. 
Rule, absolute, 181. 

Britannia, 312. 

good old, 411. 

long-levelled, 196. 

of men, beneath the, 505. 

the state, to ruin or to, 222. 

the varied year, 309. 

them with a rod of iron, 578. 
Ruler of the inverted year, 363. 
Rules, never shows she, 278. 

the waves, Britannia, 312. 
Ruling passion, 277, 278. 
Rum and true religion, 487. 
Ruminate, as thou dost, 127. 
Rumination, my often, 43. 
Rumour of oppression, 360. 
Run amuck, 288. 

away and fly, 215. 

before the wind, 341. 

I can, or I can fly, 198. 

that readeth it, 565. 

whose course is, 338. 
Runneth not to the contrary, 356. 
Running, first sprightly, 229. 
Runs the great circuit, 363. 
Rural sights alone, 360. 
Rush into the skies, 270. 

to glory or the grave, 441. 
Rushing of the arrowy Rhone, 472. 
Russet mantle clad, 101. 
Russia, a night in, 23. 
Rustic moralist, 334. 
Rustling in the dark, 534. 



Rustling in unpaid-for silk, 133. 
Ruthless King, 330. 

Sabbath appeared, 369. 

was made for man, 569. 

who ordained the, 536. 
Sabbathless Satan, 429. 
Sabean odours, 1S1. 
Sable silvered, 103. 
Sabler tints of woe, 335. 
Sables, suit of, 113. 
Sabrina fair listen, 19S. 
Sack, intolerable deal of, $j. 

purge and leave, 59. 
Sacred burden is this life, 524, 

source, ope the, 329. 

to ridicule, 288. 
Sacrifice to the graces, 306. 

turn delight into a, 155. 
Sacrilegious murder, 93. 
Sad as angels, 440. 

because it makes us smile, 490. 

by fits, 339. 

fancies do we affect, 420. 

music of humanity, 406. 

presage of his future years, 373. 

stories of the death of kings, 53. 

vicissitudes of things, 341. 

words of tongue, 525. 
Saddens at the long delay, 309. 
Sadder and a wiser man, 431. 
Saddest of all tales, 490. 

are these, 525. 
Saddled and bridled to be ridden, 

233- 
Sadness, feeling of, 532. 

most humorous, 43. 
Safe bind safe find, 7. 
Safety, mother of, 355. 

pluck this flower, 56. 

to teach thee, 50. 
Sagacious of his quarry, 190. 
Sage advices, lengthened, 385. 

he stood, 175. 

he thought as a, 359. 

just less than, 453. 
Sage's pride, 290. 
Sages have seen in thy face, 369. 

in all times assert, 140. 

than all the, 417. 
Sail, bark attendant, 276. 

set every threadbare, 535. 
Sailed for sunny isles, 509. 
Sailing like a stately ship, 193. 

on obscene wings, 432. 
Sailor, lives like a drunken, 69. 
Sailors but men, 35. 
Sails filled, 193. 

St. George that swinged the drag- 
on, 49. 



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Index. 



Saint in crape and lawn, 276. 

it would provoke a, 277. 

seem a, 69. 

sustained it, 296. 

upon his knees, 369. 
Saintly shew, falsehood under, 181. 
Saints above, men below and, 444. 

his soul is with the, 434. 

who taught, 300. 

will aid if men will call, 431. 
Saint-seducing gold, 76. 
Saintship of an anchorite, 468. 
Salad days, 131. 

Sally, there 's none like pretty, 244. 
Salt have lost his savour, 566. 

of the earth, 566. 

seasoned with, 575. 
Saltness of time, 60. 
Saltpetre, villanous, 55. 
Salutary influence of example, 321. 

neglect, 352. 
Salvation, no relish of, 115. 

should see, 37. 

working out, 218. 
Samphire, one that gathers, 122. 
Sanctified by truth, 415. 
Sanction of the god, 298. 
Sanctity of reason, 187. 
Sand of twenty seas, 19. 
Sands, come unto these yellow, 17. 

of time, footprints on the, 530. 

small, the mountain, 267. 
Sang, it may turn out a, 387. 
Sange, ful wel she, 1. 
Sans taste sans everything, 42. 

teeth sans eyes, 42. 
Sapphire blaze, 3^0. 
Sapphires, living, 182. 
Sappho loved and sung, 488. 
Sapping a solemn creed, 472. 
Sat like a cormorant, 181. 
Satan came also, 543. 

exalted sat, 174. 

finds some mischief, 254. 

get thee behind me, 568. 

so call him now, 185. 

stood unterrified, 177. 

trembles when he sees, 369. 
Satanic school, 427. 
Satchel, school-boy with his, 41, 

3°7- . 
Sate, weeping upon his bed has, 

534- 
Satire be my song, let, 466. 

is my weapon, 288. 

like a polished razor, 303. 

or sense, 287. 

pointed, 234. 
Satisfied that is well paid, 38. 
Satisfy the child, 342. 



Saturday and Monday, 244. 
Satyr, Hyperion to a, 101. 
Saucy doubts, 94. 
Saul also among the prophets, 

542. 
Sauntered Europe round, 292. 
Savage, noble, ran, 228. 

woman, take some, 519. 
Save in his own country, 568. 

me from the candid friend, 
398.. 
Saviour's birth is celebrated, 100. 
Saw the air too much, 112. 
Saws, full of wise, 41. 
Say not good-night, 378. 
Sayings of philosophers, 215. 
Says, never, a foolish thing, 234. 

what says he, 370. 
Scab of churches, 142. 
Scaffold high, on the, 504. 

truth forever on the, 539. 
Scale, geometric, 212. 

weighing in equal, 101. 
Scan your brother man, 386. 
Scandal about Queen Elizabeth, 

. 382. 

in disguise, 290. 

waits on greatest state, 134. 
Scandalous and poor, 234. 
Scandals, immortal, 230. 
Scanter of your maiden presence, 

104. 
Scarecrows, such, 58. 
Scarfs garters gold, 273. 
Scars, gashed with honourable, 
438. 

he jests at, 77. 
Scatter plenty, 334. 
Scene, last, of all, 42. 

of man, 269. 
Scenes like these, from, 390. 
Scent of odorous perfume, 193. 

of the roses, 455. 

the morning air, 106. 
Scented the grim Feature, 190. 
Scents the evening gale, 390. 
Sceptic could inquire for, 213. 
Sceptre, a barren, in my gripe, 94. 

leaden, 261. 
Sceptred sovereigns, 484. 

sway, 37. 
Schemes of mice, best laid, 386. 
Scholar among rakes, 367. 

and a gentleman, 387. 

rake Christian, 338. 

ripe and good one, 74. 
Scholar's life assail, 317. 

soldier's eye, 112. 
Scholars, land of, 343. 
School, Satanic, 427. 



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School, unwillingly to, 41. 
School-boy, whining, 41. 

with his satchel, 307. 
School-boy's tale, 469. 
School-boys, like, 3S8. 
School-days, my joyful, 429. 
Schoolmaster is abroad, 504. 
Schools, maxim in the, 246. 
Science, bright-eyed, 332. 

eel of, by the tail, 291. 

falsely so called, 576. 

frowned not, 335. 

glare of false, 359. 

one, will one genius fit, 280. 

star-eyed. 440. 

that men lere. 4. 
Sciences, all the abstruse, 485. 
Scio's rocky isle, 479. 
Scion of chiefs, 475. 
Scoff, who came to, 345. 
Scoffer's pen, product of a, 423. 
Scole of Stratford, 1. 
Scope of mine opinion, ioo. 
Score and tally, 67. 
Scorn delights, 199. 

for the time of, 130. 

in spite of, 172. 

laugh a siege to, 98. 

laugh thee to, 565. 
ughed his word to. 366. 

of eyes reflecting gems, 69. 

what a deal of, 47. 
Scornful jest, 318. 
Scotched the snake, 94. 
Scotia's grandeur springs, 390. 
Scotland, stands, where it did, 97. 
Scoundrel maxim, 310. 
Scourge, inexorable, 174. 
Scout, eastern, 195. 
Scraps of learning dote, on, 266. 

stolen the, 31. 
Screw your courage, 91. 
Scripture authentic, 266. 

elder, 266. 

the devil can cite, 35. 
Scruple of her excellence, 22. 
Sculptured flower, 514. 
Scutcheon, honour a mere, 59. 
Scuttled ship, 488. 
Scylla your father. 36. 
Scvllam, in, incidis. 36 
S'death I '11 print it. 286. 
Sea, alone on a wide wide, 430. 

bark is on the. 483. 

bottom of the, 69. 

by the deep, 475. 

cloud out of the, 543. 

down to a sunless, 434 

dark blue sea, 480. 

first gem of the, 456. 



Sea, fishes live in the, 133. 

flat, sunk. 196. 

footsteps in the, 369. 

heritage the, 459. 

I 'm on the. 503. 

in the rough rude, 53. 

into that silent, 430. 

inviolate. 517. 

is a thief, 81. 

loved the great, 503. 

light that never was on, 420. 

now flows between, 432. 

of pines, 433. 

of troubles, no. 

of upturned faces, 450, 464. 

one is of the, 413. 

Proteus rising from the, 410. 

robs the vast, 81. 

rolls its waves, 443. 

set in the silver, 52. 

ships that have gone down 
. at, 453. 

sight of that immortal, 422. 

stern god of, 2o5. 

swelling of the voiceful, 437. 

the open sea. 503. 

union with its native, 424. 

was roaring, 301. 

wave o' the. 48. 

wet sheet and flowing, 459. 

what thing of, 193. 

whether in, or fire, 100. 
Sea-change, suffer a. 17. 
Sea-girt citadel. 469, 
Seal, seem to set his, 115. 
Seals of love, 24. 
Sea-maid's music, 33. 
Sear the yellow leaf, 97. 

meadows brown and, 514. 
Search, not worth the. 35. 

of deep philosophy, 166. 

out his bottom, 164. 

will find it. 160. 
Seas incarnadine, 93. 

of gore, 490. 

rivers run to. 227. 

such a jewel as twenty, 19. 

two boundless. 452. 
Sea-shore, boy playing on the, 237. 
Season, ever 'gainst that, 100. 

to everything there is a, 558. 

your admiration, 102. 
Seasoned timber never gives, 155. 

with a gracious voice, 36. 

with salt. 575. 
Seasons and their change, 183. 

death thou hast all, 496. 

return with the year, 179. 

vernal of the year, 207. 
Seat, hath a pleasant, 90. 



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Seat in some poetic nook, 492. 

nature from her, 189. 

up to our native, 174. 

while memory holds a, 107. 
Seated heart knock, 89. 
Seats beneath the shade, 344. 
Second and sober thoughts, 233. 

childishness, 42. 
Secret of a weed's plain heart, 539. 

sympathy. 445. 

things belong unto the Lord, 
54i- 
Secrets of my prison-house, 106. 
Sect, slave to no, 275. 
Security for the future, 323. 
Sedge, kiss to every, 19. 
Seduces all mankind , 301. 
See and be seen, 611. 

and eek for to be seye, 3. 

her was to love her, 389. 

in a summer's day, 32. 

my lips tremble, 294. 

oursels as others see us, 386. 

the conquering hero, 237. 

the right and approve it, 585. 

thee d — d first, 398. 

through a glass darkly, 574. 

two dull lines, 268. 

what is not to be seen, 381. 

Winter comes, 309. 
Seed begging bread, 547. 

of the church, 581. 

sow thy, 560. 
Seeds of time, look into the, 88. 
Seeing eye, 555. 

not satisfied with, 557. 
Seek and ye shall find, 567. 
Seeking whom he may devour, 

578, 
Seem a saint, 69. 

to me all the uses, 101. 

worthy of your love, 418. 
Seeming estranged, 506. 

evil, still educing good, 310. 

otherwise, 126. 
Seems, careful of the type she, 523. 

madam. I know not, 101. 

wisest, virtuousest, 188. 
Seen better days, 81. 

needs but to be, 273. 

too early, 77. 
Sees God in clouds, 270. 
Seeth with the heart, 436. 
Seigniors, reverend, 123. 
Seize the pleasures, 315. 
Seldom he smiles, 83. 

shall she hear a tale, 327. 
Self, true to thine own, 104. 

smote the chord of, 518. 
Self-disparagement, 423. 



Self-dispraise, luxury in, 423. 
Self-love not so vile a sin, 63. 
Self-neglecting and self-love, 63. 
Self-sacrifice, spirit of, 419. 
Self-slaughter, canon 'gainst, 101. 
Selves, from our own, 315. 
Sempronious, we '11 do more, 250. 
Senate, his little, laws, 287, 297. 

long debate, 250. 
Senators, green-robed, 498. 

most grave, 125. 
Sending them ruffles, 350. 
Senior-junior giant-dwarf, 30. 
Sensations felt in the blood, 406. 
Sense, all the joys of, 274. 

and nonsense, 223. 

deviates into, 225. 

from thought divide, 271. 

if all want, 155. 

much fruit of, 281. 

of death, 24. 

of future favours, 253. 

one for, one for rhyme, 215. 

palls upon the, 250. 

palters with us in a double, 99. 

song charms the, 176. 

sublime of something, 407. 

they have of ills, 328. 

want of, 232. 
Senses, steep my, 61. 

unto our gentle, 90. 
Sensible to feeling, 92. 
Sentence, he mouths a, 357. 

is for open war, 174. 

mortality my, 190. 
Sentences, quips and, 26. 
Sentiment, pluck the eyes of, 536. 
Sentinel stars. 442. 
Sentinels, fix'd, 63. 
Separateth very friends, 554. 
Sepulchral urns, 368. 
Sepulchred in such pomp, 204. 
Sepulchres, whited, 569. 
Sequester'd vale, 334, 356. 
Seraph, rapt, that adores, 271. 

so spake the, i8*S. 
Seraphs might despair, 468. 
Serbonian bog, 176. 
Serene of heaven, 426. 

gem of purest ray, 333. 
Sergeant deaih, 119. 
Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 387. 

who flies a, 155. 
Sermons in stones, 39. 
Serpent, Aaron's, 272. 

biteth like a, 555. 

more of the, than dove, 16. 

sting thee twice, 37. 

trail of ihe, 452. 
Serpent's tooth, 120. 



Index. 



735 



Serpents, be ye wise as, 567. 
Servant of God well done, 186. 

to the lender, 555. 

with this clause, 155. 
Serve in heaven, 171. 

the devil in, 501. 

they, who stand and wait, 205. 
Serveth not another's will, 141. 
Service devine, she sange, 1. 

done the state some, 130. 

of the antique world, 40. 

small, is true service, 420. 

sweat for duty, 40. 
Servile opportunity to gold, 413. 

to skyey influences, 24. 
Servitude, laws of, 228. 
Seson priketh every gentil herte, 3. 
Sessions of sweet silent thought, 

1.34 
Set my ten commandments, 66, 610. 

on edge, teeth are, 564. 

terms, good, 40. 

the wild echoes flying, 520. 

thine house in order, 563. 
Setteth up another, 549. 
Setting, haste now to my, 72. 

in his western skies, 222. 
Settle's numbers, lived in, 291. 
Seven ages, his acts being, 41. 

cities warr'd, 164. 

half-penny loaves, 66. 

hours to law, 380. 

men that can render a reason, 
555. . 

mighty cities strove, 164. 

women in that day, 562. 

years' pith, 123. 
Severe, lively to, 275. 

pleasant to, 226, 275. 
Severn, Avon to the, 415. 
Sewers annoy the air, 189. 
Sex, female of, 193. 

spirits ether, assume, 172. 

to the last, 224. 

towers above her, 250. 
Sex's earliest latest care, 324. 
Shade, ah pleasing, 328. 

chequer'd, 201. 

contiguity of, 360. 

gentleman of the, 54. 

half in, half in sun, 457. 

hunter and the deer a, 440. 

more welcome, 300. 

of aristocracy, 465. 

of power, gray flits the, 469. 

of that which once was great, 
412. 

pillared, 190. 

sitting in a pleasant, 143. 

softening into, 310. 



Shade that follows wealth, 348. 

thought in a green, 219. 

unperceiv'd, 310. 
Shades, happy walks and, 190. 

of death, dens and, 177. 

of night, fled the, 184. 
Shadow both way falls, 192. 

cloak'dfrom head to foot, 522. 

hence horrible, 95. 

life is but a walking, 99. 

of a starless night, 493. 

of death, darkness and the, 544. 

of the British Oak, 354. 

of thy wings, under the, 546. 

proves the substance true, 282. 

seemed, 177. 
Shadows beckoning, dire, 195. 

best in this kind are, 34. 

come like, so depart, 96. 

face o'er which a thousand, 
408. 

lengthening, 222. 

like our, wishes lengthen, 265. 

not substantial, 160. 

of coming events, 441. 

that walk by us, 147. 

to-night have struck more ter- 
ror, 71. 

what, we are what shadows 
we pursue, 352. 
Shadowy past, 531. 
Shadwell never deviates, 225. 
Shady brows, 194. 

place, sunshine in the, 10. 

side of Pali-Mall, 381. 
Shaft at random sent, 450. 

fledge the, 467. 

flew thrice, 261. 

that made him die, 168. 

that quivered. 467. 
Shake hands with a king, 529. 

my felh purpose, 89. 

our disposition, 105. 

the saintship, 468. 

the spheres, 220. 

thy gory locks, 95. 
Shaken, to be well, 392. 
Shaker of o'er-rank states, 150. 
Shakes pestilence and war, 177. 
Shakespeare fancy's child, 202. 

make room for, 211. 

myriad-minded, 437. 

sweetest, 202. 

wonder of our stage, 145. 
Shakespeare's magic, 228. 

name, rival, 439. 
Shall I wasting in despair, 151. 

not when he would, 599. 

we shut the door, 313. 
Shallow brooks, 201. 



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Shallow in himself, 192. 

spirit of judgment, 65. 
Shallows, bound in, 87. 
Shame, biush of maiden, 514. 

erring sister's, 477. 

hide her, from every eye, 349. 

honor and, 274. 

start at, 357. 

the Devil, 57, 610. 

the fools, print it and, 286. 

to men, 176. 

where is thy blush, 115. 

whose glory is their, 575. 
Shames, thousand innocent, 27. 
Shank, his shrunk, 41. 
Shape, assume a pleasing, no. 

execrable, 177. 

harmony of, 242. 

it might be called, 177. 

of a camel, 114. 

of anger can dismay, 419. 

such a questionable, 105. 

take any, but that, 95. 

the whisper, 523. 
Shapes, calling, 195. 

of ill may hover, 501. 

that come not, 408. 
Share the good man's smile, 345. 
Shared its shelter, 391. 
Sharp as a pen, 63. 

misery had worn him, 80. 
Sharpe the conquering, 4. 
Sharper than a serpent's tooth, 120. 
Sharp-looking wretch, 25. 
Sharps, unpleasing, 80. 
Shatter the vase, 455. 

your leaves, 199. 
She for God in him, 181. 

gave me eyes, 401. 

impossible, 163. 

is a woman, 75. 

lived unknown, 402. 

never told her love, 47. 

unexpressive, 42. 
Shears, fury with theabhorred, 199. 
Shed, prepare to, them now, 86. 

their selectest influence, 188. 
Sheddeth man's blood, 540. 
Shedding seas of gore, 490. 
Sheep, close-shorn, 156. 
Shell, music slumbers in the, 399. 

smooth-lipped, 423. 

take ye each a, 294. 
Shepherd, gentle, tell me where, 

3*3- 

hast any philosophy, 42. 
tells his tale, 201. 
that bids the, 194. 
Shepherd'sawe-inspiring god, 423. 
tongue, truth in every, 13. 



Sheridan, broke the die in mould- 
ing, 482. _ 
Shew, under saintly, 181. 
Shews of things, 138. 
Shield, like an ample, 230. 
Shifted his trumpet, 348. 
Shifts, holy, 215. 
Shikspur who wrote it, 338. 
Shilling, Philip and Mary on a,2i8. 
Shillings, rather than forty, 20. 
Shine with such lustre, 371. 
Shining blades, 458. 

burning and a, light, 571. 

light, 552. 

morning face, 41. 
Ship, idle as a painted, 430. 

like a stately, 193. 

of State, sail on O, 533. 

that ever scuttled, 488. 
Ships are but boards, 35. 

dim-discover'd, 308. 

launched a thousand, 15. 

like, they steer their courses, 
214. 

that have gone down, 453. 

that sailed for sunny isles, 509. 
Shirt and a half, 58. 

happy man 's without a, 140. 

of fire, 529. 

oftener changed their princi- 
ples than, 268. 

on his back, 350. 

sending ruffles when wanting 
a, 350. 
Shive, to steal a, 75. 
Shoal of time, 90. 
Shoals of honour, 72. 
Shock of corn, 544. 

of men, midst the, 469. 

of pleasure, 501. 

sink beneath the, 478. 
Shocks that flesh is heir to, no. 
Shoe pinches, where the, 583. 
Shoe-string, careless, 159. 
Shone, his coming, 186. 

like a meteor, 172. 
Shook a dreadful dart, 177. 

the arsenal, 192. 
Shoon, clouted, 197. 
Shoot folly as it flies, 269. 

young idea how to, 308. 
Shooting-stars attend thee, 158. 
Shop-keepers, nation of, 593. 
Shore, boat is on the, 483. 

dull tame, 503. 

my native, 468. 

never came to, 509. 

of memory, 424. 

rapture on the lonely, 475. 

some silent, 244. 



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737 



Shore, unknown and silent, 429. 

wild and willowed, 444. 
Shores of old romance, 403. 
Short and bright, 238. 

and far between, 307. 

and simple annals, 332. 

as are the nights, 14S. 

measures, life in, 144. 

swallow-flights, 522. 
Short-lived pain, 447. 
Shot forth peculiar graces, 184. 

heard round the world, 527. 

my arrow o'er the house, 119. 

my being through earth, 432. 

out of an elder gun, 64. 
Should auld acquaintance, 388. 

keep who can, they, 411. 

not say it, say it that, 611. 

take who have, they, 411. 
Shouldered his crutch, 345. 
Shoulders, whose heads do grow 

beneath their, 124. 
Shoures, April with his, 1. 
Shout and revelry, 194. 

that tore hell's concave, 172. 
Shouted for joy, 545. 
Show and gaze o' the time, 99. 

driveller and a, 317. 

his eyes, 96. 

me the steep and thorny way, 
103. 

us how divine a thing, 408. 

which passeth, 101. 

world is all a fleeting, 458. 
Showed how fields were won, 345. 
Showers, honied, 200. 

like those maiden, 159. 

sweetest, 148. 
Shows, comment on the, 414. 
Shreds and patches, 116. 
Shrewsbury clock, hour by, 59. 
Shriek, solitary, 487. 
Shrine of the mighty, 477. 
Shrines to no code, 529. 
Shrunk shank, 41. 
Shuffled off this mortal coil, no. 
Shunn'st the noise of folly, 203. 
Shut of evening flowers, 189. 

shut the door, 285. 

the door, shall we, 313. 

the gates of mercy, 334. 

the windows of the sky, 311. 
Shy of using it, 212. 
Sibyl, contortions of the, 355. 
Sick, say I 'm, I 'm dead, 285. 

that surfeit with too much, 35. 
Sickness and in health, 579. 
Sickness-broken body, 168. 
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of 
thought, in. 



Side the sun 's upon, 457. 
Sides of my intent, 91. 
Sidelong looks of love, 344. , 

maid, snatched hasty from the 
310. 
Sidney warbler of poeticprose, 364. 
Sidney's sister, 145. 
Siege to scorn, laugh a, 98. 
Sieges, fortunes, 124. 
Sigh from Indus to the pole, 293. 

humorous, 30. 

no more ladies, 26. 

passing tribute of a, 334. 

that rends thy constant heart, 
348. 

to those who love me, 483. 

yet feel no pain, 458. 
Sighed and looked, 221, 309. 

at the sound, 369. 

for his country, 442. 

no sooner, 43. 

to many, 467. 

to measure, 404. 

to think I read a book, 404. 

we wept we, 166. 
Sighing, a plague of, 56. 

farewell goes out, 74. 

like furnace, 41. 

that nature formed but one 
such man, 4S2. 

through all her works. 1S9. 
Sighs, bridge of, 473. 

to find them in the Wood, 514. 

world of, for my pains a, 124. 
Sight became a part of, 478. 

charms strike the, 2S5. 

faints into dimness, 479. 

goodly, to see, 468. 

hideous, a naked human 
heart, 263. 

loved not at first, 15. 

of human ties, 293. 

of means to do ill deeds, 51. 

of that immortal sea, 422. 

of vernal bloom, 179. 

out of, out of mind, ~, 14. 

spare my aching, 331. 

swim before my, 293. 

to dream of, 431. 

which you all know by, 427. 
Sightless Milton, 414. 
Sights of ugly death, 69. 
Sign, dies and makes no, 66. 

of gratulation, 18S. 

outward and visible, 579. 
Signet sage, 448. 
Significant and budge, 367. 
Signifying nothing, 99. 
Sis;ns of woe, 189. 
Silence and slow time, 498. 

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Silence and tears, parted in, 466. 

deep as death, 442. 

envious tongues, 73. 

expressive, 310. 

float upon the wings of, 195. 

in love bewrays, 13. 

is gold, speech is silver, 610. 

is the perfectest herald, 26. 

that dreadful bell, 126. 

was pleased, 182. 

ye wolves, 292. 
Silent as the moon, 193. 

cataracts, 433. 

dew, fall on me like a, 159. 

fingers point to heaven, 424. 

manliness of grief, 347. 

organ loudest chants, 527. 

prayer, homes of, 522. 

sea of pines, 433. 

shore, landing on some, 244. 

that you may hear, 85. 

upon a peak, 499. 
Silently as a dream, 460. 
Silk, unpaid-for, 133. 
Silken tie, silver link the, 445. 
Siloa's brook, 170. 
Siloam's shady rill, 460. 
Silver cord be loosed, 560. 

fruit-tree tops, 78. 

lining on the night, 195. 

link, the, 445. 

mantle threw, 182. 

pictures of, 556. 

speech is, 610. 
Simile that solitary shines, 289. 
Similes, play with, 403. 
Similitudes used, 565. 
Simon Pure. 249. 
Simple child, 401. 

wiles, transient sorrows, 404. 
Simples, compounded of, 42. 
Simplicity a child, 296. 

a grace, 144. 

of the three per cents, 377. 

resigns her charge, 180. 

truth miscalled, 135. 
Sin and death abound, 438. 

and guilt, each thing of, 197. 

blossoms of my, 107. 

by that, the angels fell, 72. 

could blight, ere, 434. 

falter not for, 524. 

fools make a mock at, 553. 

for me to sit and grin, 535. 

his favourite, 427. 

no, for a man to labour, 54. 

of self-love, 63. 

of self-neglecting, 63. 

quantum o' the, 387, 

thinking their own kisses, 80. 



Sin, they, who tell us, 426. 

wages of, is death, 572. 
Since heaven's eternal year, 226. 

the conquest, 234. 
Sincerity wrought in a sad, 527. 
Sinews bought and sold, 361. 

of the new-born babe, 115. 

of war, 584. 

stiffen the, 63. 
Sing and that they love, 169. 

because I must, 522. 

for joy, widow's heart to, 545. 

he knew himself to, 199, 

in a hempen string, 147. 
Singeth to a quiet tune, 430. 
Singing of anthems, 60. 

of birds is come, 561. 

robes, garland and, 206. 

singers, 243. 
Single blessedness, 32. 

hour of that Dundee, 412. 

life, careless of the, 523. 
Sings about the sky, 489. 
Sink beneath the shock, 478. 

or swim live or die, 462. 
Sinking, alacrity in, 21. 

in thy last long sleep, 380. 
Sinks or swims, 179. 
Sinner of his memory, 17. 
Sinning, moresinn'd against than, 

120. 
Sins, compound for, 213. 

multitude of, 577. 

our compelled, 23. 

remembered, in. 
Sion hill delight thee more, 170. 
Sir Oracle, I am, 35. 
Sires, green graves of your, 528. 

sons of great, 299. 
Sirups, lucent, 498. 
Sister spirit come away, 295. 
Sisters, weird, 96. 
Sit upon the ground, let us, 53. 
Sitting in a pleasant shade, 143. 
Sits on his horse-back, 49. 

the wind in that corner, 26. 
Six hours in sleep, 380. 

hundred pounds a year, 245. 

Richmonds in the field, 71. 
Sixes and sevens, 603. 
Sixpence all too dear, 126. 

I give thee, 398. 
Size of pots of ale, 212. 
Skies, commercing with the, 202. 

passed into the, 366. 

people of the, 141. 

pointing at the, 279. 

raised a mortal to the, 221. 

rush into the, 270. 

setting in his western, 222. 



Index. 



739 



Skies, watcher of the, 499. 
Skill, barbarous, 167. 
Skilled in gestic lore, 343. 
Skims along the main, 282. 
Skin and bone, 305. 

for skin, 543. 

of an innocent lamb, 66. 

of my teeth, 545. 
Skirmish of wit, 26. 
Skirt the eternal frost, 433. 
Skirts of happy chance, 523. 
Skulls, dead men's, 69. 
Sky, admitted to that equal, 270. 

banner in ihe, 535. 

beyond the, 466. 

blue, bends over all, 431. 

canopied by the blue, 483. 

forehead of the morning, 200. 

girdled with the, 426. 

howls along the, 340. 

in our northern, 378. 

is changed, 472. 

milky way i' the, 157. 

parent from the, 287. 

stars set their watchin the, 442. 

tears of the, 306. 

under the open, 513. 

windows of the, 311. 

witchery of the soft blue, 409 

yon rich, 520. 
Skyey influences, 24. 
Slain, he can never do that 's, 219. 

thrice he slew the, 220. 
Slander sharper than the sword, 1 3 3. 
Slanderous tongues, death by, 28. 
Slaughter, lamb to the, 563. 

ox goeth to the, 552. 

to a throne, 334. 
Slave, base is the, that pays, 62. 

born to be a, 366. 

passion's, 113. 

to no sect, 275. 

to thousands, 127. 

to till my ground, 361. 

what2verdaymakesmana,299. 
Slavery, a bitter draught, 326. 

or death, 250. 

sold to, 124. 
^Slaves as they are, down to the 
dust with them, 458. 

Britons never shall be, 312. 

cannotbreathein England.361. 

howe'er contented, 366. 

with greasy aprons, 132. 

worst of, 338. 
Sleave of care, 93. 
Sleek-headed men, 83. 
Sleep and a forgetting, 421. 

charm that lulls to, 348. 

exposition of, 33. 



Sleep falleth on men, 543. 

fan me while I, 361. 

first invented, 9. 

friendliest to, 185. 

giveth his beloved, 551. 

in Abraham's bosom, 70. 

in dull cold marble, 72. 

is like a cloak, 9. 

it is a gentle thing, 430. 

lay me down to take my, 600. 

life rounded with a, 18. 

Macbeth does murder, 93. 

Nature's soft nurse, 61. 

no more, a voice cry, 93. 

no more, to die to, no. 

O gentle, 61. 

of a laboring man, 558. 

of death, no. 

sinking in thy last long, 380. 

six hours in, 3S0. 

some must, 114. 

sweet restorer, balmy, 261. 

the friend of woe, 427. 

the innocent, 93. 

the sleep that knows not, 448. 

timely dew of, 183. 

to mine eyes, 551. 

to that sweet, 128. 

undisturbed, 319. 

was aery-light, 184. 

yet a little, 552. 
Sleeping when she died, 506. 

within mine orchard, 106. 
Sleepless themselves, 291. 
Sleeps in dust, 160, 5S0. 

on his own heart, 418. 

the pride of former days, 453. 

till tired he, 273. 

upon this bank, 38. 
Sleet of arrowy shower, 332. 
Sleeve, heart upon my, 123. 
Sleeves, herald's coat without, 58. 
Slepe, out of his, to sterte 3. 
Slepen alle night, 1. 
Slept, dying when she, 506. 

in peace, 73. 
Slew the slain, thrice he, 220. 
Slides into verse, 288. 
Slight waist, round the, 477. 
Slings and arrows, no. 
Slipper'd Pantaloon, 41. 
Slips, greyhounds in the, 63. 
Slits the thin-spun life, 199. 
Slogardie a-night, 3. 
Slope through darkness, 523. 
Sloping into brooks, 492. 
Sloth, resty, 133. 
Slough was Despond, 231. 
Slovenly unhandsome, 55. 
Slow rises worth, 318. 



740 



Index. 



Slowly the Spring comes, 431. 
Sluggard, go to the ant thou, 552. 

voice of the, 255. 
Sluggards sleep, while 316. 
Slumber, little, 552. 

to mine eyelids, 551. 
Slumbering ages, 515. 
Slumber's chain, 457. 
Slumbers in the shell, 399. 

light, dreams and, 447. 
Smack of age, 60. 

of observation, 49. 
Smacked of noyance, 310. 
Small choice in rotten apples, 44. 

drop of ink, 488. 

habits well pursued, 379. 

Latin and less Greek, 145. 

one a strong nation, 564. 

rare volume, 395. 

sands the mountain, 267. 

service is true service, 420, 

things with great, 603. 

vices do appear, 122. 
Smallest worm will turn, 67. 
Smart for it, 553. 

for it, some of us will, 28. 

girls that are so, 244. 
Smarts so little as a fool, 286. 

this dog, 314. 
Smell a rat, 214, 610. 

ancient and fish-like, 18. 

flower of sweetest, 410. 

of bread and butter, 484. 

of the lamp, 583. 

sweet and blossoms in the 
dust, 160. 

the blood of British man, 121. 

villanous, 21. 
Smelleth the battle, 546. 
Smells to heaven, 114. 

wooingly, heaven's breath, 90. 
Smels sweete al around, 10. 
Smile and be a villain, 107. 

and sigh, 503. 

because it makes us, 490. 

calm thou mayst, 380. 

could be moved to, 83. 

from partial beauty, 439. 

ghastly, 178. 

good man's, 345. 

in pain, 266. 

on her lips, 447. 

that glowed, 188. 

to those who hate, 483. 

tribute of a, 444. 

vast substantial, 538. 

we would aspire to, 72. 

why we shall, 87. 
Smiled, all around thee, 3S0. 
Smiles at the drawn dagger, 251. 



Smiles from reason flow, 1 89. 

his emptiness betray, 287. 

in yer face, 304. 

of boyhood's years, 457. 

of joy, 458. 

robb'd that, 125. 

seldom he, 83. 

the clouds away, 479. 

welcome ever, 74. 
Smiling at grief, 47. 

in her tears, 440. 
Smith stand with his hammer 

thus, 51. 
Smiting it, gently not, 534. 
Smoke and stir, 194. 

that so gracefully curled, 458. 
Smoking flax, 563. 
Smooth runs the water, 66. 

the bed of death, 287. 
Smoother than butter, 548. 
Smoothing the raven-down, 195. 
Smooth-lipped shell, 423. 
Smoothness, torrent's, 442. 
Smote the chord of Self, 518. 
Snail, creeping like, 41. 
Snails, feet like, 158. 
Snake, scotched the, 94. 

wounded, 282. 
Snapper-up of trifles, 48. 
Snatch a fearful joy, 328. 

a grace, 280. 
Sneer, laughing devil in his, 480. 

solemn, 472. 

teach the rest to, 286. 
Snore upon the flint, 133. 
Snow, December's, 52. 

fall in the river, 385. 

mockery king of, 53. 

pure as, in. 

rosebuds filled with, 139. 
Snow-flakes fall, 492. 
Snow-white ram, 425. 
Snuff, only took, 348. 
Snuffed out by an article, 490. 
Snug as a bug, 316. 

little Island, 429. 
So much to do, 523. 
Soap, invisible, 507. 
Soar, wont to, 168. 
Sober certainty, 196. 

go to bed, 147. 

in your diet, 303. 

second thought, 233. 
Soberness, truth and, 572. 
Society became my glittering 
bride, 423. 

one polished horde, 491. 

solitude is best, 189. 

where none intrudes, 475. 
Socrates whom well inspired, 192. 



Index. 



741 



Soft answer, 553. 

as her clime, 484. 

as young, 263. 

black eye, with its, 452. 

eyes looked love, 471. 

impeachment, 382. 

is rhe music, 410. 

is the strain, 282. 

the zephvr blows, 331. 

voices die, 495. 
Softening into shade, 310. 
Softly bodied forth, 474. 
Soil, grows on mortal, 200. 

not in this, 197. 

thus leave thee native, 190. 

where first they trod, 497. 
Soiled with all ignoble use. 524. 
Soils, rich, are often to be weeded, 

137- 
Solar walk or milky way, 270. 
Sold him a bargain, 30. 

to slavery, 124. 
Soldat heureux, 451. 
Solder of society, 307. 
Soldier among sovereigns, 367. 

and afeard, 97. 

armed with resolution, 248. 

ask the brave, 454. 

be abroad. 504 

blasphemy in the, 23. 

full of strange oaths, 41. 

himself have been a, 55. 

more than, 453. 

successful, 451. 
Soldier's pole is fallen, 16. 

virtue, 131. 
Soldiers bore dead bodies, 55. 

substance of ten thousand, 71. 
Sole judge of truth, 272. 

of her foot, 540. 
Solemn acts of devotion, 374. 

creed, sapping a, 472. 

fop, 367. 

sneer, 472. 

temples, 18. 
Sole-sitting by the shores, 403. 
Solid flesh would melt, 101. 

ground of nature, 410. 

happiness we prize. 315. 

men of Boston, 3S1. 

puddingy 291. 
Solitary shriek, 487. 
Solitude, bird in the, 481. 

bliss of, 404. 

he makes a, 479. 

how passing sweet is, 366. 

is sweet, 366. 

least alone in. 472. 

sometimes is best society, 189. 

where are the charms, 369. 



Some are born great, 47. 

asked me where, 158. 

natural tears, 191. 

said John print it, 231. 

say no evil thing, 196. 

sipping punch, 409. 

three ages since, 29. 
Something after death, in. 

better than his dog, 518. 

dangerous in me, 119. 

in a flying horse, 409. 

in a hu?e balloon, 409. 

rich and strange, 17. 

the heart must havts, 534. 

too much of this, 113. 

wicked this way comes, 96. 
Sometimes counsel take, 284. 
Son and foe, 178. 

every wise man's, 46. 

happy for that. 67. 

of Adam and Eve, 242. 

of his own works, 8. 

of parents, 366. 

two-legg'd thing a. 222. 
Song, burden of some merry, 288. 

charms the sense, 176. 

for our banner, 512. 

govern thou my, 186. 

metre of an antique, 134. 

mighty orb of. 422. 

moralized his. 287. 

no sorrow in thy, 3 Q o. 

of Percy and Douglass, 14. 

one immortal, 222. 

satire be my, 466. 

swallow-flights of, 522. 

truth of a. 242. 

wanted many an idle, 285. 
Songes make and wel endite, 1. 
Songs, had my book of, 20. 

turned to holy psalms, 140. 
Sonne, up rose the, 3. 
Sonorous metal. 172. 
Sons and kindred slain, 165. 

of Belial. 172. 

of Columbia, 443. 

of night, 454. 

of reason valour, 311 

of the morning, 460. 

of their great sires, 299. 
Sooner lost and won. 46. 
Soothe the savage breast, 256. 
Soothed with the sound, 220. 
Sophonisba, O, 311. 
Soprano basso, 484. 
1 Sore labour's bath, 93, 
i Sorrow, bread in. ate. 534. 

calls no time that 's gone, 148. 

climbing. 120. 

earth has no, 45S. 



742 



Index. 



Sorrow fade, sin could blight or, 

434- 

fail not for, 524. 

for all her, 426. 

give, words, 97. 

hath 'scaped this, 135. 

her rent is, 154. 

in thy song, 380. 

is held intrusive, 515. 

is in vain, 148. 

is unknown, where, 369. 

melt into, 478. 

more closely tied, 453. 

more in, than in anger, 102. 

never comes too late, 329. 

of the meanest thing, 406. 

parting is such sweet, 78. 

path of, 369. 

pine with feare and, 12. 

returned with the dawning 
of morn, 442. 

rooted, 98. 

some natural, 411. 

sphere of our, 495. 

to the grave, 540. 

under the load of, 28. 

wear a golden, 71. 
Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 519. 

keenest wind, 410. 
Sorrows and darkness, 460. 

come not single spies, 117. 

here I and, sit, 49. 

of a poor old man, 372. 

of death, 546. 

transient, 404. 
Sort, smiles in such a, 83. 
Sorts of prosperity, all, 247. 
Sots, what can ennoble, 274. 
Sought out many inventions, 559. 
Soul, as if his eager, 221. 

blind his, 521. 

bruised with adversity, 25. 

cold waters to a thirsty, 556. 

cordial to the, 210. 

crowd not on my, 331. 

current of the, 333. 

eloquence the, 176. 

eye was in itself a, 479. 

fiery, 221. 

flow of, 288. 

free in my, 161. 

freed his, 319. 

fret thy, with crosses, 12. 

grapple them to thy, 103. 

happy, that all the way, 163. 

harrow up thy, 106. 

haughtiness of, 230. 

hides a dark, 196. 

I think nobly of the, 48. 

intercourse from, 293. 



Soul, iron entered into his, 580. 

is dead that slumbers, 530. 

is form, 12. 

is his own, 64. 

is in arms, 249. 

is wanting there, 477. 

is with the saints, 434. 

like an ample shield, 230. 

like seasoned timber, 155. 

lose his own, 568. 

meeting, 202. 

merit wins the, 285. 

of goodness, 64. 

of harmony, 202. 

of music shed, 453. 

of music slumbers, 399. 

of Orpheus sing, 203. 

of our grandam, 48. 

of Richard, 71, 249. 

of the age, 145. 

of wit, 108. 

overflowed the, 424. 

palace of the, 469. 

perdition catch my, 127. 

prophetic, 106. 

prospect of his, 28. 

rapt, sitting, 202. 

secured in her existence, 251. 

sincere, 335. 

so dead, man with, 445. 

soothed his, 220. 

suck forth my, 15. 

swell the, to rage, 221. 

sweet and virtuous, 155. 

take the prisoned, 195. 

take wing, 482. 

that can be honest, 147. 

that perished in his pride, 405. 

that rises with us, 421. 

the body form doth take of, 12. 

the body's guest, 597. 

thou hast much goods, 570. 

through my lips. 517. 

to dare the will to do, 448. 

to keep.pray the Lord my, 600. 

tocsin of the, 489. 

unction to your, 116. 

under the ribs of death, 197. 

uneasy and confin'd, 270. 

unlettered, 29. 

unto his captain Christ, 53. 

was like a star, 413. 

white as heaven, 149. 

whiteness of his, 471. 

who would force the, 416. 

why shrinks the, 251. 

within her eyes, 484. 
Soul's calm sunshine, 274. 

dark cottage, 168. 

sincere desire, 438. 



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743 



Soul-animating strains, 410. 
Souls are ripened, 378. 

as free, 480. 

assembled, 167. 

corporations have no, 8. 

jewel of their, 127. 

made of fire, 268. 

reaches of our, 105. 

such harmony in, 38. 

sympathy with sound, in, 364. 

that were forfeit once, 23. 

to souls can never teach, 

5 26 - 

whose sudden visitations, 515. 
Sound an echo to the sense, 282. 

and fury, 99. 

dirge-like, 408. 

harmonious, 186. 

harsh in, 75. 

is in my ears, 418. 

jarring, 178. 

most melodious, n. 

murmuring, 404. 

must seem an echo, 2S2. 

of a knell, 369. 

of revelry by night, 470. 

of thunder, 176. 

persuasive, 256. 

soothed with the, 220. 

sweet is every, 521. 

the clarion, 450. 

the loud timbrel, 458. 

the trumpet, 237. 

which makes us linger, 476. 
Sounded all the depths, 72. 
Sounding brass, 574. 

cataract, 406. 
Sounds as a sullen bell, 60. 

blowing martial, 172. 

concord of sweet, 38. 

melodious, on every side, 207. 

those deep, 436. 
Sour, every sweet its, 598. 

grapes, have eaten, 564. 

lofty and, 74. 

misfortune's book, 80. 
Source of all my bliss, 347. 

of human offspring, 1S3. 

of sympathetic tears, 329. 
Sour-complexioned man, 153. 
South and south-west side, 212. 

like the sweet, 46. 
Sovereign among soldiers, 367. 
law, 38a. 

of sighs and groans, 30. 
o'er transmuted ill, 317 
reason, noble and most, 112. 
w ? hen I forget my, 371. 
Sovereignest thing on earth, 55. 
Sovereigns, sceptred, 484. 



Sow, as you, you are like to reap, 
217. 
for him, build for him, 405. 

wrong, by the ear. 612. 
Soweth, whatsoever a man, 575. 
Sown the wind, 565. 
Spaceandtime, annihilatebut, 290. 
Spacious firmament on high, 252. 
Spade a spade, 583. 
Spades emblem of untimely 

graves, 363. 
Spain's chivalry, 491, 
Spake as a child, 574. 

the seraph Abdiel, 186. 
Span, life is but a, 600. 
Spangled heavens, 252. 
Spangling the wave. 450. 
Spanish or neat's leather, 216. 
Spare Fast, 202. 

my aching sight, 331. 

that tree, woodman, 512. 

the rod, 216, 610. 
Spared a better man, 59. 
Spareth his rod, 553. 

his words, 554. 
Spark, human, 293. 

illustrious, 366. 

of heavenly flame, 295. 

of that immortal fire, 47S. 

vocal, instinct with music, 403. 
Sparkled was exhal'd, 264. 
Sparkling with a brook, 492. 
Sparks fly upward, as the, 544. 

of fury, 304. 
Sparrow, caters for the, 39, 

fall of a, 119. 

fall or hero perish, 269. 
Speak by the card, 117. 

daggers to her, 114. 

from your folded papers, 536. 

if any, 85. 

in public on the stage, 393. 

it profanely, not to, 112. 

let him now, 579. 

of me as I am, 130. 

of Ninety-eight, 511. 

right on, 86. 

too coldly, 457. 
Speaker, no other, 74. 

Mr., shall we shut the door, 

3*3- 

Speaking, thought him still, 187. 
things which they ou^ht not, 

57t- . . 
Spear, Ithuriel with his, 184. 

to equal the tallest pine, 171. 
Spears into pruning-hooks, 561. 
Special providence, 119. 

wonder, without our, 95. 
Spectacles of books, 230. 



744 



Index. 



Spectacles on nose, 41. 
Spectatum veniunt, 3. 
Spectre-doubts, 440. 
Speculation in those eyes, 95. 
Speech be always with grace, 575. 

day unto day uttereth, 547. 

is silver, 610. 

is truth, 446. 

poetry of, 474. 

rude am I in my, 123. 

thought deeper than, 526. 

thought is, 446. 

to conceal their thoughts, 594. 

wed itself with, 522. 
Speeches, men's charitable, 139. 
Speed, add wings to thy, 177. 

the going guest, 288. 

the parting guest, 299. 

the soft intercourse, 293. 

to-day, 12. 
Speke he never so rudely, 3. 
Spell, trance or breathed, 204. 
Spells, lime-twigs of his, 197. 
Spend another such a night, 69. 

to, to give to want, 12. 
Spenser, a little nearer, 211. 
Spent them not in toys, 166. 
Sphere of our sorrow, 495. 

two stars in one, 59. 
Sphere-descended maid, 339. 
Spheres, shake the, 220. 

stars shot madly from, 33. 

start from their, 106. 
Spice of life, 362. 
Spick and span new, 610. 
Spicy nut-brown ale, 201. 
Spider, like a subtle, 270. 
Spider's touch, 270. 
Spiders, lately had two, 248. 
Spies, not single, 117. 
Spin, toil not neither do they, 567. 
Spins, Lord Fanny, 288. 
Spires whose silent finger points 

to heaven, 424. 
Spirit, pard-like, 494. 

Brutus will start a, 83. 

chased, are with more, 36. 

clear, doth raise, 199. 

dare stir abroad, 100. 

ditties of no tone, 498. 

extravagant and erring, 100. 

haughty, before a fall, 554. 

humble tranquil, 165. 

ill, have so fair a house, 18. 

indeed is willing. 569. 

motions of his, 38. 

of a youth, 132. 

of health or goblin damned, 
105. 

of heaviness, 564. 



Spirit of liberty, 352. 

of man is divine, 479. 

of my dream, 482. 

of self-sacrifice, 419. 

of wine, 127. 

of youth, 135. 

one fair, 475. 

01 more welcome shade, 300. 

present in, 573. 

rest perturbed, 108. 

shall return unto God, 560. 

that fought in heaven, 174. 

the accusing, 326. 

the least erected, 173. 

thy fathers, 106. 

thy, Independence, 340. 

to bathe in fiery floods, 24. 

vexation of, 558. 

walks of every day, 262. 

wounded, who can bear, 554. 
Spiriting, do my, gently, 17, 
Spirits are not finely touched, 22. 

either sex assume, 172. 

from the vasty deep, 57. 

of great events, 436. 

of just men, 577. 

of the wise, 60. 

twain have crossed, 500. 
Spirit-stirring drum, 129. 
Spiritual grace, 579. 
Spit, they will, 43. 
Spite, in erring reason's, 271. 

in learned doctor's, 526. 

of my teeth, 606 

of nature, 214. 

of pride, 271. 

of scorn, 172. 

of their stars, 214. 

O cursed, 108. 
Spleen, meditative, 423. 
Splendid sight to see, 468. 
Splendour through the sky, 438. 
Splenetive and rash, 119. 
Split the ears of the groundlings, 

112. 
Spoil the child, 216, 610. 
Spoils and stratagems, 38. 

of nature, 333. 

of time, 333. 

to the victors belong the, 492. 
Spoke in her cheeks, 143. 
Spoken, word at random, 450. 
Sponge, drink no more than a, 6. 
Spoon, must have a long, 606. 
Spoons, count our, 321. 
Sport an hour, 458. 

tedious as work, 54. 

to have the engineer, 116. 

with Amaryllis, 199. 
Sports of children, 342. 



Index. 



745 



Sports like these, 342. 
Spot is cursed, 405. 

of earth, could any, 424. 

out damned, 97. 

which men call earth, 194. 
Spots of sunny openings, 492. 

quadrangular, 363. 
Spread his sweet leaves, 76. 

the thin oar, 273. 

the truth, 253. 

yourselves, 32. 
Spreading himself, 547. 
Spreads his light wings, 293. 
Sprightly running, 229. 
Spring, come gentle, 308. 

comes slowly up, 431. 

from haunted, 204. 

infants of the, 103. 

of love, 19, 430. 

of woes, 298. 

unlocks the flowers, 460. 

visit the mouldering urn, 359. 
Springes to catch woodcocks, 104. 
Springs of Dove, 402. 
Spriting, do my, gently, 17. 
Spur, fame is the, 199. 

to prick the sides, 91. 
Spurned by the young, 508. 
Spurs the lated traveller, 94. 
Spy, no faults can, 244. 
Squadron in the field, 123. 
Squat like a toad, 183. 
Squeak and gibber, 100. 

naturally as pigs, 212. 
Squeaking wry-necked fife, 36. 
Stabbed with a white wench's 

black eye, 79. 
Staff of life, 247. 

of this broken reed, 563. 

thy rod and thy, 547. 
Stage, agree on the, 383. 

all the world 's a, 41. 

found only on the, 489. 

frets his hour upon the, 99. 

natural on the, 348. 

poor degraded, 526. 

speak in public on the, 393. 

the earth a, 164. 

veteran on the, 317. 

well-trod, 202. 

where man must play a part, 34. 

wonder of our, 145. 
Stagers, old cunning, 216. 
Stagger like a drunken man, 550. 
Stagirite, stout, 429. 
Stagnate in chains, 459. 
Stain, incapable of, 174. 

like a wound, 353. 

my man's cheeks, 120. 
Stained web, like the, 452. 

32 



Stairs, kick me down, 391. 
Stake, honours at the, 116. 
Stakes were thrones, 485. 
Stale flat and unprofitable, 101. 
Stalk, four red roses on a, 70. 

withering on the, 418. 
Stalked off reluctant. 307. 
Stalled ox and hatred, 553. 
Stamford fair, bullocks at, 61. 
Stamp of fate, 298. 
Stand and wait, 205. 

before mean men, 555. 

not upon the order of your 
going, 95. 

still my steed, 531. 

the hazard of the die, 71. 
Standard of the man, 255. 
Standing on this pleasant lea, 410. 

pond, mantle like a, 35. 

pool, mantle of the, 121. 

upon the vantage-ground, 136. 

with reluctant feet, 532. 
Stanhope's pencil writ, 268. 
Stands Scotland where it did, 97. 

the statue that enchants the 
world, 309. 

upon a slippery place, 50. 
Stanley, on, 447. 

Sir Hubert, 394. 
Stanza, who pens a, 285. 
Staple of his argument, 31. 
Star, bright particular, 45. 

constant as the northern, 84. 

every fixed, 29. 

fair as a, 402. 

like a falling, 173. 

man is his own, 147. 

of dawn, a later, 403. 

of empire, 257. 

of peace return, 441. 

of smallest magnitude, 179. 

of the moth for the, 495. 

of the unconquered will, 531. 

perfect as a, 529. 

stay the morning, 433. 

that bids the shepherd fold, 
194. 

that ushers in the even, 135, 

thy soul was like a, 413. 

twinkling of a, 217. 
Star-chamber matter, 20. 
Starers, stupid, 275. 
; Star-eyed science, 440. 
! Starless night, 493. 
Starlight, glittering, 183. 
Star-like eyes, 150. 
Star-spangled banner, 491. 
Starry cope of heaven, 184. 

Galileo, 474. 

girdle of the year, 440. 



746 



Index. 



Starry host, Hesperus that led the, 

182. 
Star-y-pointing pyramid, 204. 
Stars, beauty of a thousand, 15. 

blesses his, 250. 

cut him out in little, 79. 

doubt thou the, 10S. 

fairest of, 185. 

fault not in our, 82. 

fell like, 438. 

glows in the, 271. 

hide their diminished heads, 
180. 

innumerable as the, 186. 

kings are like, 493. 

of glory, 496. 

of midnight, 404. 

of morning, 186. 

restless fronts bore, 423. 

repairing, other, 187. 

set their watch, 442. 

shall fade, 251. 

shooting, attend thee, 158. 

shot madly, 33. 

start from their spheres, 106. 

that round her bum, 253. 

two, keep not their motion, 59. 

unutterably bright, 493. 

were more in fault, 242. 
Start of the majestic world, 82. 

straining upon the, 63. 
Started like a guilty thing, 100. 
Startles at destruction, 251. 
Starts, everything by, 223. 
Starve with nothing, 35. 
State, eruption to our, 100. 

falling with a falling, 297. 

high and palmy, 100. 

of life, duty in that, 579. 

of war by nature, 245. 

pillar of, 175. 

rule the, 222. 

some service, done the, 130. 

thousand years to form a, 470. 

waits on greatest, 134. 

what constitutes a, 380. 

with the storms of. 73. 

without a King, 508. 
State's collected will, 380. 
Stated calls to worship, 321. 
Stately pleasure-dome, 434. 
States dissevered discordant, 462. 

saved without the sword, 505. 
Statesman and buffoon, 223. 

too nice for a, 347. 
Station, private, 251. 
Statue that enchants the world, 309. 
Statue-like repose, 512. 
Stature undepressed in size, 414. 
Stay oh stay, 454. 



Stay the morning star, 433. 

to wish her, 187. 
Steal a shive, 75. 

as gypsies do, 382. 

away their brains, 127. 

away your hearts, 86. 

convey the wise it call, 20. 

from the world, 295. 

immortal blessing, 80. 

my thunder, 239. 

us from ourselves away, 290. 
Stealing and giving odour, 46. 
Steals somethingfrcmthethief,i25. 

who, my purse, 127. 
Stealth, do good by, 288. 
Steam, unconquered, 371. 
Steed, farewell the neighing, 129. 

stand still my, 531. 

that knows his rider, 470. 

threatens steed, 64. 
Steeds to water, 132. 
Steel, as with triple, 176. 

foemen worthy of their, 449. 

grapple with hooks of, 103. 

grapple with hoops of, 103. 

heart as true as, 33. 

in complete, 66, 105, 196. 

locked up in, 66. 

my man is true as, 79. 

strings of, 115. 
Steep and thorny way, 103. 

marbled, 488. 

my senses, 61. 

of Delphos, 204. 
Steeped me in poverty, 130. 

to the lips in misery, 533. 
Steeple, looking at the, 487. 
Steepy mountains, 15. 
Stem, moulded on one, 33. 
Stenches, two-and-seventy, 435. 
Step above the sublime, 375. 

aside is human, 386. 

more true, 448. 

to the music of the Union, 508. 
Stepping o'er the bounds, 80. 
Steps, beware of desperate, 370. 

brushing with hasty, 334*. 

grace in all her, 187. 

hear not my, 92. 

Lord directeth his, 554. 

of glory, 482. 

with wandering, 191. 
Sterile promontory, 109. 
Stern and rock-bound coast, 497. 

god of sea, 206. 

joy which warriors fee 1 , 449, 

Ruin's ploughshare, 386. 

winter loves, 408. 
Sternest good-night, 92. 
Sterte, out of his slepe to, 3. 



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747 



Stick, fell like the, 375. 

on conversation's burrs, 536. 
Sticking-place, screw your cour- 
age to the, 91. 
Stiff in opinions, 223. 

thwack, with many a, 214. 
Stiffen the sinews, 63. 
Still achieving still pursuing, 530. 

an angel appear, 259. 

as night, 175. 

be a woman, 259. 

beginning never ending, 221. 

destroying fighting still, 221. 

forever fare thee well, 4S1. 

govern thou my song, 1S6. 

in thy right hand, jt>- 

remember me, 453. 

small voice, 543. 

the wonder grew, 346. 

to be neat, 144. 

waters, beside the, 547. 
Stillness, modest, 63. 
Sting, death where is thy, 295. 

thee twice, 37. 
Stingeth like an adder, 555. 
Stir as life were in 't, 98. 

fretful, unprofitable, 406. 

of the great Babel, 363. 

smoke and, 194. 
Stirs this mortal frame, 432. 
Stoic of the woods, 442. 
Stoicism, the Romans call it, 250. 
Stole the livery of Heaven, 501. 
Stolen, not wanting what is, 129. 

the heart of a maiden, 455. 

waters are sweet, 552. 
Stomach, my, is not good, 9. 

of unbounded, 73. 
Stomach's sake, wine for thy, 576. 
Stone, firm as a, 546. 

fling but a, 304. 

leave no, unturned, 581. 

rolling, gathers no moss, 6. 

set in the silver sea, 52. 

tell where I lie, 295. 

the builders refused, 550. 

to beauty grew, 527. 

underneath this, doth lie, 144. 

violet by a mossy, 402. 

wallsdonot aprison make, 161. 
Stones, inestimable, 69. 

of Rome to rise, 86. 

of worth, like, 135. 

prate of my whereabout, 92. 

sermons in, 39. 

the enamel'd, 19. 
Stood among them not of them, 473. 

beside a cottage, 509. 

iix'd to hear, 187. 

in Venice, 473. 



I Stood upon Achilles' tomb, 489. 
Stools, push us from our, 95. 
Stoops to folly, woman, 349. 
Stop, to sound what, 113. 

a hole, might, 118. 
Stopped his tuneful tongue, 296. 
Stopping a bung-hole, 118. 
Store, cares were to increase his, 
34i- 

unguarded, 277. 
Storied urn, can, 333. 

windows richly dight, 203. 
Stories long dull and old, 392. 

of the death of kings, 53. 
Storm, directs the, 252 

pelting of this pitiless, 120. 

pilot that weathered the, 398. 

rides upon the, 369. 

that howls along the sky, 340. 
Storms of fate, struggling in the, 
297. 

of life, rainbow to the, 479. 

of state, broken with the, 73. 

may enter but the king can- 
not, 323. 
Stormy March has come, 513. 
Story being done, my, 124. 

I have none to tell, 398. 

locks in the golden, 76. 

of Cambuscan bold, 202. 

of her birth, repeats the. 253. 

of my life, questioned me 
the, 124. 

old, ne'er had been read in, 446. 

teach him how to tell my, 125. 
Stout once a month, 224. 
Strain at a gnat, 569. 

prophetic, 203. 

soft is the, 282. 

that, again, 46. 
Strained from that fair use, 78. 
Straining harsh discords, 80. 
Strains that might create a soul, 197. 

soul-animating, 410. 
Strand, naiad of the, 448. 
Strange all this difference, 305. 

but true, 491. 

coincidence, 490. 

cozenage, 229. 

eventful history, 42. 

fellows, nature hathframed,34. 

't was passing strange, 124. 

something rich and, 17. 
Stranger in a strange land, 541. 

than fiction, 491. 

yet to pain, 328. 
Strangers honour'd, by, 296. 

mourn'd, 296. 

to entertain, 577. 
Stratagems and spoils, 38. 



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Stratford atte bowe, i. 
Straw, quarrel in a, 116. 

take a, and throw it up, 152. 

tickled with a, 273. 

tilts with a, 416. 
Strawberries, Dr. Boteler said of, 

153- 
Straws, errors like, 228. 
Stream, haunted, 202. 

in smoother numbers flows, 
282. 

thy, my great example, 164. 

which overflowed the soul, 424. 
Streamed like a meteor, 330. 
Streamers waving and sails filled, 

1.93- 
Streaming splendour, 438._ 
Streams from little fountains, 393. 

gratulations flow in, 243. 

lapse of murmuring, 187. 

more pellucid, 408. 

of dotage flow, 317. 

of revenue gushed forth, 463. 

run dimpling, 287. 
Streets, lion is in the, 556. 

of Askelon, 542. 
Strength, all below is, 226. 

be as thy days, 541. 

giant's, is excellent, 23. 

king's name a tower of, 70. 

labour and sorrow, 549. 

lovely in your, 472. 

of nerve or sinew, 407. 

our castle's, 98. 

to strength, 549. 

wears away, as my, 238. 
Strengthens with his strength, 272. 
Stretched forefinger, 520. 

on the rack, 292. 

upon the plain, 467. 
Striding the blast, 91. 
Strife of tongues, 547. 

to heal, 408. 
Strike, afraid to, 2S6. 

but hear, 582. 

delayed to, 190 

for your altars, 528. 

mine eyes not my heart, 144. 

the blow, who would be free 
must, 469. 

while the iron is hot, 610. 
Striking the electric chain, 473. 
String attuned to mirth, 507. 
Strings, harp of thousand, 255. 

of steel, 115. 

two, to his bow, 611. 
Strive here for master}', 178. 
Striving to better, 120. 
Stroke, feel the friendly, 244. 

no second, intend, 178. 



Stroke, some distressful, 124, 
Strokes, many, 67. 
Strong as death, 561. 

battle not to the, 559. 

drink is raging, 554. 

in death, 277. 

in honesty, 87. 

nor'wester 's blowing, 428. 

suffer and be, 531. 

swimmer in his agony, 487. 

upon the stronger side, 50. 

without rage, 164. 
Stronger by weakness, 168. 
Strongly it bears us, 433. 
Struck eagle, 467. 
Strucken deer go weep, 114. 
Struggle of discordant powers, 353. 
Struggling in the stormsof fate, 297. 
Strung with his hair, 31. 
Struts and frets his hour, 99. 
Stubble, built on, 197. 

land at harvest home, 54. 
Stubborn gift, 408. 

patience, 176. 

unlaid ghost, 196. 
Studded with stars, 493. 
Studied in his death, 89. 
Studies, still air of delightful, 206. 
Studious let me sit, 310. 

of change, 360. 

of ease, 253. 
Study is a weariness of flesh, 560. 

labour and intent, 206. 

of imagination, 28. 

of learning, 207. 

of mankind, 272. 

of revenge, 170. 

to be quiet, 576. 

what you most affect, 44. 
Stuff as dreams are made on, 18. 

life is made of, 316. 

made of sterner, 85. 

other men's, 141. 

penetrable, 115. 

perilous, 98. 

the head with reading, 292. 
Stuffs out his vacant garments, 50. 
Stumbling on abuse, 78. 
Stupid starers, 275. 
Style is the dress of thoughts, 306. 

of man, highest, 264. 
Subdu'd to what it works in, 135. 
Subdues mankind, 471. 
Subject of all verse,. 145. 

such duty as the, owes, 44. 

unlike my, 306. 
Subjection, implied, 182. 
Subject's duty is the king's, 64 

soul is his own, 64. 
Sublime a thing to suffer, 531. 



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Sublime and the ridiculous, 375. 

tobacco, 485. 
Submission, coy, 1S2. 
Substance might be called, 177. 

of his greatness, 149. 

of ten thousand soldiers, 71. 

of things hoped for, 576. 

true, proves the, 282. 
Substantial smile, one vast, 538. 
Suburb of the life elysian, 533. 
Success, not in mortals to com- 
mand, 250. 

things ili got had ever bad, 67. 

with his surcease, 90. 
Successful soldier, 451. 
Successive rise, 298. 
Successors gone before him, 20. 
Succour dawns from heaven, 450. 
Such a questionable shape, 105. 

apt and gracious words, 30. 

as sleep o' nights, 83, 

joy ambition finds, 181. 

master such man, 7. 

mistress such Nan, 7. 

things to be, 523. 

were the notes, 296. 
Suck my last breath, 294. 

forth my soul, 15. 
Sucking dove, gently as any, 32. 
Suckle fools, 126. 
Suckled in a creed, 410. 
Sudden thought strikes me, 39S. 
Suffer a sea-change, 17. 

and be strong, 531. 

hope of all who, 525. 

wet damnation, 145. 

who breathes must, 241. 
Sufferance, corporal, 24. 

is the badge, 36. 
Suffering, child of, 536. 

ended with the day, 512. 

learn in, 494. 

sad humanity, 533. 

tears to human, 408. 
Sufferings, to each his, 328. 
Sufficiency, an elegant, 30S. 

to be so moral, 28. 
Sufficient to have stood, 180. 

unto the day, 567. 
Sugar o'er the devil himself, no. 
Suing long to bide, in, 12. 
Suit lightly won, 447. 

of sables, 113. 

the action to the word, 112. 
Suits of woe, 101. 
Sullen mind, musing in his, 10. 

dame, our sulky, 385. 
Sullenness against nature, 207. 
Sum of all villanies, 312. 

of more, giving thy, 39. 



Summer, eternal, gilds them, 488. 

friends, 155. 

last rose of, 455. 

life 's a short, 318. 

made glorious, 68. 

of her age, 230. 

of your youth, 325. 

sweet as, 74. 

thy eternal, 134. 
Summer's cloud, like a, 95. 

day, hath a, 163. 

day, see in a, 32. 

fantastic heat, s 2 - 

noontide air, 175. 

ripening breath, 7S. 
Summon from the shadowy past, 

531, 1, 
up remembrance, 134. 

up the blood, 63. 
Summons, so live that when thy, 
comes, 513. 

thee to Heaven or Hell, 92. 

upon a fearful, ioo. 
Summum nee metuas diem, 191. 
Sun, all except their, is set, 488. 

as the dial to the, 218, 268. 

bales unopened to the, 263. 

beauty to the, 76. 

candle to the, 267. 

children of the, 268. 

declines, wishes lengthen as 
our, 265. 

doubt that the, 108. 

early rising, 159. 

go down upon your wrath, 575. 

goes round, 168. 

grow dim with age, 251. 

hail the rising, 338. 

half in, 457. 

impearls on every leaf, 186. 

in his coming, 463. 

in my dominion never sets, 464. 

in the lap of Thetis, 216. 

is a thief, 81. 

loss of the, 306. 

low descending, 601. 

no new thing under the, 557. 

of righteousness, 565. 

of York, 68. 

pleasant to behold the, 560. 

pleasant the, 183. 

reflecting upon the mud, 139. 

round the setting, 422. 

shall not smite thee, 551. 

shine sweetly on my grave, 359. 

snatches from the, 81. 

tapers to the, 384. 

that side the, is upon, 457. 

the worshipped, 76. 

to me as dark, 193. 



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Sun upon an Easter-day, 157. 

upon the upland lawn, 334. 

walks under the midday, 196. 

warms in the, 271. 

which passe th through pollu- 
tions, 139. 

world without a, 439. 

worship to the garish, 79. 
Sunbeam soiled by outward touch, 

206. 
Sunbeams out of cucumbers, 246. 

people the, 202. 
Sunday from the week divide, 100. 

shines no Sabbath day, 285. 
Sunflower turns on her god, 455. 
Sung ballads from a cart, 228. 

from morn till night, 357. 
Sunium's marbled steep, 4S8. 
Sunlight drinketh dew, 517. 
Sunnenshine, flies of estate and, 

i55- 
Sunny as her skies, 484. 

hour fall off, 453. 

openings, spots of, 492. 
Suns, process of the, 519. 
Sunset of life, 441. 
Sunshine broken in the rill, 452. 

in the shady place, 10. 

of the breast, 328. 

settles on its head, 345. 

soul's calm, 274. 

to the sunless land, 421. 
Superfluous lags the veteran, 317. 
Supped full with horrors, 98. 
Supper, man made after, 61. 

nourishment called, 29. 

with such a woman, 303. 
Supply, last and best, 278. 
Support and raise, 170. 
Surcease, success, with his, 90. 
Sure and certain hope, 580. 

and firm-set earth, 92. 

assurance double, 96. 

it may be so in Denmark, 107. 
Surely you '11 grow double, 417. 
Surer to prosper, 174. 
Surety for a stranger, 553. 
Surfeit reigns, crude, 197. 

with too much, 35. 
Surge may sweep, 470. 

whose liquid resolves, 8r. 
Surgery, honour no skill in, 59. 

past all, 126. 
Surgeslashthesoundingshore,282. 
Surpasses or subdues mankind, 

Surprises, millions of, 155. 
Survey, monarch of all I, 369. 

our empire, 480. 
Survive or perish, live or die, 462. 



Suspects yet strongly loves, 128. 
Suspended oar, drip of the, 472. 
Suspicion, Caesar's wife above, 582. 

haunts the guilty mind, 67. 

sleeps at wisdom's gate, 180. 
Swain, dull, treads on it daily, 197. 

frugal, 341. 
Swallow a camel, 569. 

that comes before the, 48. 
Swallow's wings, flies with, 70. 
Swallow-flights of song, 522. 
Swam before my sight, 293. 
Swan and shadow, 412. 

of Avon, 145. 

on still St. Mary's lake, 412. 
Swan-like let me sing, 488. 
Swashing. outside, 39. 
Sway, above this sceptred, 37. 

impious men bear, 251. 

of magic, 407. 

required with gentle, 182. 
Swear an eternal friendship, 398. 

not by the moon, 78. 

to the truth of a song, 242. 
Sweareth to his own hurt, 546. 
Sweat but for promotion, 40. 

for duty, 40. 

of thy face, 540. 

under a weary life, in. 
Swell the soul to rage, 221. 
Sweep on greasy citizens, 39. 
Sweeping whirlwind's sway, 331. 
Sweeps a room, who, 155. 
Sweet and bitter fancy, 43. 

and musical, 31. 

and virtuous soul, 155. 

and voluble, 30. 

are the uses of adversity, 39. 

as English air, 520. 

as summer, 74. 

as the primrose, 346. 

as year by year, 503. 

attractive grace, 181. 

Auburn loveliest village, 344. 

bells jangled out of tune, 112. 

childish days, 402. 

counsel, we took, 548. 

creation of some heart, 474. 

day so cool so calm, 155. 

days and roses, 155. 

discourse, Sydneian showers 
of, 163. 

every, its sour, 598. 

far less, to live with them, 455 

food of sweetly uttered knowl- 
edge, 14. 

girl-graduates, 520. 

influences of Pleiades, 545. 

is every sound, 521. 

is pleasure after pain. 220. 



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751 



Sweet is revenge to women, 486. 

is the breath of mora, 183. 

little cherub, 379. 

nothing half so, 455. 

Phosphor bring the day, 154. 

poison for the age's tooth, 49. 

repast and calm repose, 335. 

shady side of Pall Mall, 381. 

so coldly, so deadly fair, 477. 

south, like the, 46. 

spring full of sweet days, 155. 

sweet swan of Avon, 145. 

the lily grows, how, 460. 

the moonlight sleeps, 38. 

the pleasure, 220. 

to know there is an eye will 
mark, 486. 

truly the light is, 560. 
Sweete smels al around, 10. 
Sweeten my imagination, 122. 

this little hand, 97. 
Sweeter for thee despairing, 390. 

pains of love be, 229. 

than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
48. _ 

thy voice, 521. 
Sweetest garland to the sweetest 
maid, 300. 

thing that ever grew, 401. 
Sweetly she bade me adieu, 327. 

uttered knowledge, 14. 
Sweetner of life, 307. 
Sweetness and light, 246. 

linked, 202. 

loathe the taste of, 57. 

on the desert air, 333. 

wanton, through the breast, 
310. 
Sweets compacted he, 155. 

feast ot" nectar'd, 197. 

of Burn-hill meadow, 412. 

of forgetfulness, 359. 

to the sweet, 118. 

wilderness of, 185. 
Swell bosom with thy fraught, 129. 

music with its voluptuous, 
471. 

the soul to rage, 221. 
Swelling and limitless billows, 433. 

of the voiceful sea, 437. 
Swells from the vale, 345. 

the gale, note that, 335. 

the note of praise, 332. 
Swift expires a driveller, 317. 

race not to the, 559. 

true hope is, 70. 
Swifter than a weaver's shuttle, 

Swiftness never ceasing, 140. 
Swift-winged arrows of light, 369. 



Swim before my sight, 293. 
naughty night to, 121. 
sink or, 462. 

to yonder point, 82. 
Swimmer in his agony, 487. 
Swims or sinks, 179. 
Swine, pearl for carnal, 216. 

pearls before, 567. 
Swinged the dragon, 49. 
Swinges the scaly horror, 204. 
Swinish multitude, 354. 
Swoop, one fell, 97. 
Sword against nation, 561. 

edge sharper thanlhe, 133. 

famous by my, 169. 

glued to my scabbard, 146. 

has laid him low, 440. 

I with, will open, 21. 

pen mightier than the, 505. 

take away the, 505. 

the deputed, 23. 
Swords into ploughshares, 561. 

sheathed their, 63. 

twenty of their, 77. 
Sworn twelve, 22. 
Sydneian showers, T63. 
Syene Meroe Nilotic isle, 192. 
Syllable men's names, 195. 

of recorded time, 98. 
Syllables govern the world, 152. 

these equal, 281. 
Sylvia in the night, 19. 
Sympathetic tears, source of, 329. 
Syrups, drowsy, of the world, 

128. 
Systems into ruin hurled, 269. 

Table of my memory, 107. 

on a roar, set the, 118. 
Tables my tables, 107. 
Table-talk, serve for, 37. 
Tackle trim, 193. 
Tail, eel of science by the, 291. 

horror of his folded, 204. 

monstrous, our cat's got, 244. 

of Rhyme, dock the, 536. 
Tailor lown, he called the, 126. 
Tailor's news, swallowing a, 51. 
Take a bond of fate, 96. 

any shape but that, 95. 

away the sword, 505. 

each man's censure, 104. 

heed lest he fall, 574. 

her up tenderly, 506. 

him for all in all. 102. 

mine ease m mine inn, 57. 

my walks abroad, 254. 

no note of time, 261. 

O boatman thrice thy fee, 500. 

O take those lips away, 24. 



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Index. 



Take physic pomp, 121. 

some savage woman, 519. 

the good the gods provide 
thee, 221. 

the prisoned soul, 195. 

time enough, 305. 

ye each a shell, 294. 
Takin' notes, chiel 's amang ye, 

386. 
Taking, what a, was he in, 21. 
Tale, a plain, shall put you down, 
56. 

adorn a, 317. 

an honest, speeds best, 70. 

as 't was said to me, 444. 

every, condemns me, 70. 

every shepherd tells his, 201. 

hope tells a flattering, 497. 

in every thing, 417. 

*t is an old, 446. 

of Troy divine, 203. 

round unvarnish'd, 123. 

school-boy's, 469. 

so sad so tender, 327. 

tellen his, untrewe, 3. 

that I relate, 368. 

that is told, 549. 

thereby hangs a, 40, 44. 

told by an idiot, 99. 

told his soft, .248. 

twice-told, tedious as a, 50. 

unfold, I could a, 106. 

which holdeth children, 14. 

who shall telle a, 3. 
Tales, ancient, say true, 467. 

play truant at his, 30. 

that to me were so dear, 502. 
Talk, greatly wise to, 262. 

how he will, 237. 

is of bullocks, 565. 

of dreams, 77. 

spent an hour's, withal, 29. 

to conceal the mind, 267. 

too much, 222. 

who never think, 243. 
Talking age, for, 344. 

he will be, 27. 
Talks as familiarly of roaring 

lions, 49. 
Tall oaks from little acorns, 393. 

so, to reach the pole, 255. 
Tally, score and, 67. 
Tarn was glorious, 385. 
Tame villatic fowl, 194. 
Tamer of the human breast, 329. 
Tangled web we weave, 447. 
Tangles of Neaera's hair, 199. 
Tapers swim before my sight, 293. 

to the sun, 384. 
Tara's halls, harp through, 453. 



Tarnished gold, black with, 395. 
Tarry at Jericho, 542. 
Task is smoothly done, 198. 
Task-master's eye, 205. 
Taste, little more, 247. 

never, who always drink, 243. 

not handle not, 575. 

of death but once, 84. 

of sweetness, 57. 

of your quality, 109. 

whose mortal, 170. 
Tastes of men, 337. 
Tattered clothes, through, 122. 

ensign down, tear her, 535. 
Tatters, tear a passion to, 112. 
Taught by that power, 348. 

by time, 299. 

her dazzling fence, 198. 

highly fed and lowly, 45. 

men must be, 283. 

the wheedling arts, 301. 

us how to die, 300. 

us how to live, 300. 
Tax for being eminent, 247. 

not you, you elements, 120. 
Tea, sometimes take, 284. 
Teach him how to live, 356. 

in song, what they, 494. 

me to feel another's woe, 295. 

souls to souls can never, 526. 

the rest to sneer, 286. 

the young idea, 308. 

thee safety, 50. 

you more of man, 417. 
Teaching by examples, 258. 
Team of little atomies, 76. 
Tear a passion to tatters, 112. 

betwixt a smile and, 474. 

drying up a single, 490. 

each other's eyes, 254. 

every woe can claim, 477. 

for pity, he hath a, 62. 

forgot as soon as shed, 32S 

gave to misery all he had a, 

335- 
her tattered ensign, 535. 
in her eye, 447. 
law which moulds a, 400. 
man without a, 442. 
one particular, 135. 
some melodious, 199. 
that flows for others' woes, 

37i- 
the groan the knell, 528. 
Tears, baptized in, 373. 

beguile her of her, 124. 
big round, 39. 
dim with childish, 418. 
down Pluto's cheek, 203. 
flattered to, 498. 



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753 



Tears, fountain of sweet, 401. 

from despair, 521. 

idle tears, 521. 

if you have, 86. 

like Niobe all, 102. 

moon into salt, 81. 

must stop for every drop, 507. 

nothing is hare for, 194. 

of bearded men, 447. 

of boyhood's years, 457. 

of the sky, 305. 

of woe, 458, 

smiling in her, 440. 

some natural, 191. 

source of sympathetic, 329. 

such as angels weep, 172. 

that spaak, 330. ; 

to human suffering, 408. 

too deep for, 422. 

wronged orphans', 146. 
Teche, and gladly, 2. 
Tedious as a twice-told tale, 50. 
Teeth are set on edge, 564. 

drunkard clasp his, 145. 

skin of my, 545. 
Tell all my bones, 547. 

how the truth may be, 444. 

it not in Gath, 542. 

me the tales, 502. 

sad stories, 53. 

them they are men, 328. 

truth and shame the Devil, 
610. 
Tellen his tale untrew, 3. 
Tell-tale women, 70. 
Temper, blessed with, 278. 

justice with mercy, 190. 

man of such a feeble, 82. 

touch of celestial, 184. 

whose unclouded ray, 278. 
Temperate will, 404. 
Tempest's breath prevail, 470. 
Tempests, glasses itself in, 476. 

roar, nor, 244. 
Tempestuous petticoat, 159. 
Temple built to God, 156, 612. 

can dwell in such a, 18. 

Lord's anointed, 93. 
Temples bare, my, 432. 

groves were God's first, 514. 

of his gods, 511. 

solemn, the great globe itself, 
18. 
Tempora mutantur, 276, 
Temptation, man that endureth, 

577- 
Tempter, so glozed the, 189. 
Ten commandments, set my, 66. 
low words oft creep in one dull 

line, 281. 

32* 



Ten winters more, ran he on, 229. 
Tend, to thee we, 320. 
Tendance, touched by her fair, 187. 
Tender and so true, 327. 

for another's pain, 328. 

leaves of hope, 72. 
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 

260. 
Tenderly, take her up, 506. 
Tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 

418. 
Tenerirf or Atlas unremov'd, 184. 
Tenement of clay, 221. 
Tenets, some nice, 166. 

with books, 276. 
Tenor of his way, 356. 

of their way, 334. 
Tent, pitch my moving, 438. 
Tented field, action in the, 123. 
Tenth transmitter, no, 307. 
Tents of wickedness, dwell in the, 

549- 

shall fold their, 532. 
Terms, good set, 40. 

litigious, 207. 
Terrible as an army with banners, 
561. 

as hell, 177. 

man with a terrible name, 427. 
Terror, have struck more, 71. 

in your threats, 87. 
Terrors, king of, 544. 
Test, bring me to the, 116. 

of truth, ridicule the, 596. 
Testament as worldlings do, 39. 

of bleeding war, 53. 
Tester I '11 have in pouch, 20. 
Testimony, law and the, 562. 
Tetchy and wayward, 70. 
Text, God takes a, 155. 

rivulet of, 383. 
Thais sits beside thee, 221. 
Thames, no allaying, 161. 
Than I to Hercules, 102. 
Thank me no thanks, 613. 

thee Jew, 38. 
Thanked, when I 'm not, 314. 
Thankless child, to have a, 120. 
Thanks and use, 22. 

even poor in, 109. 

evermore, 52. 

for this relief much, 100. 

of millions yet to be, 528. 
That ever I was born, 108. 

is flat, 30, 58. 

it should come to this, 10 1. 

without or this or, 278. 
Theatre, as in a, 53. 

world 's a, 164. 
Theban, this same learned, 121. 

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754 



Index. 



Thebes or Pelops' line, 203. 
Theme, example as it is my, 164. 

fools are my, 466. 

glad diviner's, 222. 

imperial, 89. 
Themes transcend our wonted, 

211. 
Theoric, bookish, 123. 
There is no death, 533. 

is not a joy, 483. 

is the rub, no. 

was a jolly miller, 357. 
Thereby hangs a tale, 40, 44. 
These are thy glorious works, 1S5. 

as they change, 310. 
Thetis, lap of, 216. 
They conquer love that run away, 
150. 

eat they drink, 185. 

had no poet, 290. 

sin who tell us, 426. 

stood aloof, 432. 
Thick and thin, n, 223, 611. 

as autumnal leaves, 171. 

inlaid with patines, 38. 
Thick-coming fancies, 98. 
Thief, apparel fits your, 25. 

doth fear each bush, 67. 

each thing is a, 81. 

in the sworn twelve, 22. 

moon 's an arrant, 81. 

of time, procrastination is the. 
262. 

the sea 's a, 81. 
Thievery, example you with, 81. 
Thieves, by the gusty, 506. 
Thighs, cuisses on his, 58. 
Thine enemy hunger, 573. 
Thing, acting of a dreadful, 83. 

became a trumpet, 410. 

dares think one, 298. 

devised by the enemy, 71. 

enskied and sainted, 22. 

evil, that walks by night, 196. 

explain a, 292. 

how bitter a, it is, 43. 

ill-favoured, 43. 

in awe of such a, 82. 

never says a foolish, 234. 

of beaut v, 498. 

of life, like a, 480. 

of sea or land. 193. 

of sin and guilt, 197. 

order rave each, view, 71. 

play 's the, no. 

started like a guilty, 100. 

sweetest, that ever grew, 401. 

there 'sr.osuch, in nature, 235. 

to one, constant never, 26. 

two-legg'd, a son, 222. 



Thing, undisputed, sayst an, 536. 

we like we figure, 515. 
Things, all, differ, 294. 

are not what they seem, 530. 

are the sons of heaven, 320. 

bitterness of, from out the, 
420. 

can such, be, 95. 

contests from trivial, 284. 

done at the Mermaid, 148. 

else about her drawn, 404. 

evil, goodness in, 64. 

God's sons are, 320. 

great lord of all, 272. 

ill got, 67. 

laudable, write well in, 207. 

left undone those, 578. 

loveliest of lovely, 514. 

man's best, 500. 

not seen, evidence of, 576. 

of good report, 575. 

remember such, were, 97. 

that are made for our general 
uses, 147. 

that ne'er were, 281. 

that were, dream of, 469. 

to come, giant mass of, 74. 

two noblest, 246. 

unattempted. 170. 

unutterable, looked, 309. 

unknown proposed, 283. 

vicissitudes of, 341. 

we ought to have done, 578. 

when virtuous, proceed, 45. 

without all remedy, 94. 
Think him so because I think, 19. 

naught a trifle, 267. 

nobly of the soul, 48. 

none, the great unhappy, 267. 

of that Master Erook, 21. 

on these things, 575. 

one thing, dares, 298. 

that day lost, 6c r. 

they talk who never, 243. 

those that, must govern, 343. 

too little, who, 2:2. 

what you and other men, 82. 
Thinketh in his her.rt, as he, 555. 

let him that, 574. 
Thinking makes it so, 109. 

of the days that arc no more, 

their own kisses sin, 80. 

with too much, 277. 
Thinkings, as to thy, 127. 
Thinks most lives most, who, 516. 

who, must mourn, 241- 

too much, he, 83. 
Thin-spun life, slits the, 199. 
Thirsty soul, waters to a, 556. 



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755 



Thirstv earth soaks up the rain, 

166. 
Thirty days hath September, 587. 

man at, 262. 
This above all, 104. 

blessed plot this earth, 52. 

child is not mine, 539. 

is Ercles' vein, 32. 

is the Jew, 299. 

is the state of man, 72. 

or that, 278. 

rock shall fly, 449. 

was a man, 87. 
Thomb of gold parde, 2. 
Thorn, rose without the, 181. 

withering on the, 32. 
Thorns, little wilful, 520. 

that in her bosom lodge, 107. 

touched by the, 454. 

under a pot, 558. 
Those graceful acts, 188. 

that run away, 215. 

that think must govern, 343. 

thousand decencies, iSS. 

who know thee not, 379. 

who inflict must suffer, 494. 
Thou art a'.l beauty, 244. 

art the man, 542. 

canst not say I did it, 95. 

ever strong, 50. 

Fortune's champion, 50. 

hast no faults, 244. 

little valiant, 50. 

slave thou wretch, 50. 

troublest me, jo. 

wear a lion's hide, 50. 
Though deep yet clear, 164. 

I am native here, 104. 

I say it, 612. 

last not least in love, 84. 
Thought, armour is his honest, 141. 

as a sage, 359. 

chaos of, 272. 

could wed itself, ere, 522. 

deeper than all speech, 526. 

destroyed by, 357. 

dome of, 469. 

explore the, 287. 

for tha morro ; .v, 567. 

hushed be every, 420. 

in a green shade, 219. 

is spesch, 446. 

is tired of wandering, 515. 

leaped out. 522. 

like a passing, 388. 

like a pleasant, 403. 

loftiness of, 226. 

noon of, 378, 

not one immoral, 324. 

of convincing, 347. 



Thought of dining, 347. 

of our past years, 421. 

of tender happiness, 419. 

of thee, one, 293. 

pale cast of, in. 

perish that, 249. 

pleasing dreadful, 251. 

power of, 480. 

say her body, 143. 

so once but now I know it, 
3°3- 

such stores as silent, 417. 

sudden, strikes me, 393. 

thou wert a beautiful, 474. 

to have common, 277. 

sweet silent, 134. 

want of, 224, 507. 

what oft was, 281. 

wish father to that, 62. 

would destroy, 329. 
Thoughtless man, 262, 424. 
Thoughts, alone with noble, 14. 

as boundless, 480. 

as harbingers, 209. 

dark soul and foul, 196. 

downward bent, 173. 

give thy worst of, 127. 

great feelings great, 500. 

high erected, 14. 

more elevate, 176. 

most pious, 168. 

no tongue, give thy, 103. 

of men are widened, 5x9. 

of mortality, 210. 

on hospitable, intent, 185. 

pleasant, bring sad thoughts, 

4I7- r 

pretty to force together, 432. 
river of his, 482. 
shut up want air, 263. 
sober second, 233. 
strange, transcend, 211. 
style is the dress of, 306. 
that breathe, 330. 
that shall not die, 424. 
that voluntary move, 179. 
that wander, 175. 
to conceal his, 594. 
too deep for tears, 422. 
whose very sweetness, 416. 
Thousand blushing apparitions, 
27. 
crimes, 480. 
decencies, 188. 
fearful wracks, 69. 
fragrant posies, 15. 
hills, cattle upon a, 548. 
innocent shames, 27. 
liveried angels, 197. 
melodies, 399. 



756 



Index. 



Thousand, one shall become a, 
564.. 

years in thy sight, 549. 

years scarce serve to form a 
state, 470. 
Thousands die without or this, 278. 

slave to, 127. 

to murder, 267. 
Thread, feels at each, 270. 

of his verbosity, 31. 
Threadbare sail, set every, 535. 
Threatening eye, with a, 50. 
Threats, no terror in your, 87. 

of a halter, 37S. 
Three corners of the world, 51. 

gentlemen at once, 382. 

hundred pounds a year, 21. 

insides, carrying, 398. 

merry boys, 147. 

misbegotten knaves, 56. 

per cents, elegant simplicity 
of the, 377. 

poets in three ages, 225. 

removes bad as a fire, 316. 

stories high, 392. 

treasures love and light, 435. 

years' child, 425. 
Threefold cord, 558. 
Three-hooped pot, 66. 
Three-man beetle, 60. 
Threescore years and ten, 549. 
Thrice flew thy shaft, 261. 

he assayed, 172. 

he routed all his foes, 220. 

he slew the slain, 220. 

is he armed, 66. 

my peace was slain, 261. 
Thrice-driven bed of down, 125. 
Thrift may follow fawning, 113. 

thrift Horatio, 102. 
Throat, Amen stuck in my, 92. 
Throbs of fiery pain, 319. 
Throne, ebon, 261. 

here is my, 49. 

king upon his, 529. 

my bosom's lord sits lightly 
in his, 80. 

no brother near the, 286. 

of rocks, 483. 

of royal state, 173. 

power behind the, 322. 

whisper of the, 523. 

wrong for ever on the, 539. 
Throned on her hundred isles, 

473- 
Thrones and globes elate, 380. 

dominations, 185. 
Throng into my memory, 195. 

lowest of your, 184. 
Through the ages, 519. 



Throw physic to the dogs, 98. 
Throwing a tub, 246. 
Thumb, miller's golden, 2. 
Thumbs, pricking of my, 96. 
Thumping on your back, 370. 
Thumps upon the back, 370. 
Thunder heard remote, 176. 

in his lifted hand, 224. 

leaps the live, 472. 

lightning or in rain, 88. 

of the captain's, 546. 

steal my, 239. 
Thunderbolts, with all your, 87. 
Thunder-harp of pines, 529. 
Thunder-storm against the wind, 

474- 
Thus hand in hand, 315. 

let me live, 295. 

use your frog, 153. 
Thwack, with many a stiff, 214. 
Thyme, pun-provoking, 327. 

wild, blows, 33. 
Tickle your catastrophe, 60. 
Tickled with a straw, 273. 
Tide in the affairs of men, 87. 

of love, pity swells the, 263. 

of times, lived in the, 85. 
Tidings as they roll, 253. 

when he frowned, 346. 
Tie, silver link the silken, 445. 

up the knocker, 285. 
Tiger, Hyrcan, 95. 

in war imitate the, 63. 
Tight little island, 429. 
Till angels wake thee, 319. 

death us do part, 579. 
Tilt at all I meet, 288. 
Tilts with a straw, 416. 
Timber, like seasoned, 155. 

wedged in that, 232. 
Timbrel, sound the loud, 458. 
Time adds increase, 325. 

and chance, 559. 

and the hour runs, 89. 

bank and shoal of, 90. 

bastard to the, 49. 

break the legs of, 536. 

count by heart-throbs, 516. 

delight to pass away the, 68. 

do not squander, 316. 

elaborately thrown away, 268. 

even such is, 597. 

flies death urges, 262. 

fools with the, 60. 

footprints on the sands of, 530. 

forefinger of all, 520. 

foremost files of, 519. 

forget all, 183. 

frozen round periods of, 177. 

gaze of the, 99. 



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757 



Time, hallowed is the, 101. 

has laid his hand gently, 534. 

has not cropt the roses, 325. 

hath to silver turned, 140. 

he that lacks, 515. 

his, is forever, 166. 

how small a part of, 168. 

is fleeting, 530. 

is out of joint, 10S. 

is still a-flying, 158. 

kept the, with falling oars. 219. 

look into the seeds of, 83. 

makes these decays, 150. 

noiseless falls the foot of, 438. 

noiseless foot of, 45. 

nor place adhere, 91. 

not of an age, but for all, 145. 

now is the accepted, 575. 

of scorn, 130. 

of the singing of birds is come, 

561. 
panting, toil'd after him, 318. 
procrastination is the thief of, 

262. 
promised on a, 12. 
rich with the spoils of, 333. 
rolls his ceaseless course, 44S. 
robs us of our joys, 599. 
saltness of, 60. 
sent before my, 63. 
shall throw a dart, 145. 
silence and slow, 49S. 
some unlucky, 288. 
syllable of recorded, 98. 
take no note of, 261. 
to every purpose, 558. 
to mourn, lacks, 515. 
too swift, 140. 
tooth of, 25, 268. 
transported, when with envy, 

599- 

tries the troth, 6 

what will it not subdue, 257. 

whips and scorns of, in. 

whirligig of, 48. 

will run back, 204. 

will teach thee, 531. 

with thee conversing I forget 
all, 183. 

writes no wrinkle, 476. 
Time's furrows, 265. 

noblest offspring, 257. 
Times, fashion of these, 40. 

ggod or evil, 136. 

have been, 95. 

later more aged than the ear- 
lier, 138. 

make former, 215. 

morning of the, 520. 

of need, 224. 



Times of old, jolly place in, 405. 

of the morning, 138. 

principles with, 276. 

that try men's souls, 375. 

tide of, lived in the, 85. 

when the world is ancient, 153. 
Timoleon's arms, 337. 
Timothy learnt sin to fly, 600. 
Tinct with cinnamon, 498. 
Tinkling cymbal, 574. 
Tints to-morrow, 479. 
Tipped with amber, 485. 
Tipple in the deep, 161. 
Tips with silver, 78. 
Tipsy dance and jollity, 194. 
Tiptoe, stand a, 64. 
Tire of all creation, 537. 
Tired he sleeps, till, 273. 
Title long and dark, 222. 

who gained no, 279. 
To all to each, 447. 

be of no church, 320. 

be or not to be, 110. 

be undonne, 12. 

horse away, 249. 

know to esteem, 434. 
Toad, squat like a, 183. 

ugly and venomous, 39. 
Tobacco, sublime, 485. 
Tocsin of the soul, 489. 
To-day already walks to-morrow, 
in, 436. 

be wise, 261. 

I have lived, 227. 

it is our pleasure to be drunk, 

3H- 

Toe, light fantastic, 201. 

of frog, eye of newt and, 
96. 
_ of the peasant, 118. 
Toil and trouble, 96, 220. 
envy want the jail, 317. 
from, he wins, 335. 
govern those that, 343. 
morn of, nor night of waking, 

448. 
o'er books, 302. 
verse sweetens, 341. 
Toiled, rest forgot for which he, 

i34- 
Tokay, imperial, 338. 
Toledo trusty, trenchant blade, 

213. 
Tolerable not to be endured, 27. 
Toll for the brave, 368. 
Tomb, awakes from the, 359. 

darkness encompass the, 460. 

kings for such a, 204. 

nearer to the, 265. 

no inscription on my, 443. 



758 



Index. 



Tomb of him who would have 
made glad the world, 509. 
of the Capulets, 355. 
threefold fourfold, 211. 
voice of nature cries from the, 

334- 
Tombs, hark from the, 255. 
To-morrow, already walks, 436. 

and to-morrow, 98. 

boast not thyself of, 556. 

cheerful as to-day, 27a. 

defer not till, 256. 

do thy worst, 227. 

is falser, 229. 

never leave that till, 316. 

the darkest day live till, 370. 

to be put back, 12. 

to fresh woods, 200. 

will be dying, 158. 

will repay, 229. 
To-morrow's sun to thee may 

never rise, 256. 
To-morrows, confident, 425. 
Tom's food for seven long years, 

121. 
Tone of languid Nature, 360. 
Tonge, kepen wel thy, 4. 
Tongue, braggart with my, 97. 

brings in a several tale, 70. 

dropped manna, 174. 

give it an understanding but 
no, 103. 

give thy thoughts no, 103. 

in every wound of Caesar, 86. 

let the candid, 113. 

music's golden, 498. 

never in the, of him, 31. 

of midnight, 34. 

rancour of your, 304. 

that Shakespeare spake, 413. 

though it have no, no. 

to wound, 456. 

tuneful, 296. 

win a woman with his, 19. 
Tongues, airy, 195. 

aspics', 129. 

in trees, 39. 

lovers', by night, 78. 

silence envious, 73. 

slanderous, 28. 

strife of, 547. 

though fall'n on evil, 186. 

thousand several, 70. 

whispering, 431. 
Tongue-tied by authority, 135. 
To-night, shadows, 71. 
Too early seen unknown, jy. 

fair to worship, 499. 

late I stayed, 438. 

poor for a bribe, 336. 



Too solid flesh would melt, 101. 
Took sweet counsel, 548. 

their solitary way, 191. 
Tools, to name his, 212. 
Tooth for tooth, 541. 

of time, 25, 268. 

poison for the age's, 49. 

sharper than a serpent's, 120. 
Tooth-ache, endure, the, 28. 
Top, die at the, 247. 

of my bent, 114. 
Topples round the dreary west, 

522. 
Torches, as we do with, 22. 
Torments our elements, 175. 
Torn from their destined page, 

395- . . 

Torrent and whirlwind's roar, 343. 

is heard on the hill, 359. 

of a downward age, 309. 

of a woman's will, 260. 

of his fate, 317. 

so the loud, 343. 
Torrent's smoothness, 442. 
Torrents, motionless, 433. 
Torture his invention, 245. 

of the mind, 94. 

one poor word, 225. 
Torturing hour, 329. 
Toss him to my breast, 156. 
T'other dear charmer away, 301. 
Tough is J. B. 538. 
Touch harmonious, 319. 

not taste not, 575. 

of a vanished hand, 520. 

of celestial temper, 184. 

of joy or woe, 372. 

of Liberty's war, 459. 

of nature, 74. 

put it to the, 169. 

wound with a, 303. 
Touched by the thorns, 454. 

nothing that he did not adorn, 

319; 

the highest point, 72. 
Toucheth pitch, 565. 
Touchstone, man's true, 149. 
Tower of strength, 70. 
Towered citadel, 132. 

cities please us, 201. 
Towering passion, 119. 
Towers above her sex, 250. 

along the steep, 441. 

and battlements, 201. 

indorsed with, 191. * 

of Ilium, 15. 

of Julius, 331. 

the cloud-capp'd, 18. 
Town, man made the, 360. 
Towns, for want of, 245. 



Index. 



759 



Toys, fantastic, 337. 
of age, 273. 
to the great children leave, 

3 11 - 

we spent them not in, 166. 
Track the steps of glory, 482. 
Trade, two of a, 611. 
Trade's proud empire, 319. 
Tragedy, gorgeous, 203. 
Trail of the serpent, 452. 
Trailing clouds of glory, 421. 
Train, a melancholy, 343. 

of night, 185. 
Train, starry, 183. 

up a child, 555. 
Traitors, fears do make us, 96. 

our doubts are, 22. 
Trammel up the consequence, 90. 
Trample on my days, 211. 
Transfigures its golden hair, 539. 
Transforms old print, 362. 
Transgressors, way of, is hard, 

.553- 
Transient chaste, 264. 

hour, catch the, 318. 

sorrows simple wiles, 404. 
Transition, what seems so is, 533. 
Transitory, action is, 401. 
Translated, thou art, 33. 
Translucent wave,. 198. 
Transmitter of a foolish face, 307. 
Transmuted ill, 317. 
Transmutes bereaves, 419. 
Transport know, heart can ne'er 

a, 324- 
Trappings and suits of woe, 101. 

of a monarchy, 321. 
Travail, labour for my, 74. 
Travel on life's common way, 413. 

twelve stout miles, 402. 
Travelled life's dull round, 327. 
Traveller from Lima, 510. 

from New Zealand, 510. 

from the Zuyder Zee, 510. 

lighted the, 455. 

the lated, 94. 
Travel's history, portance in my, 

124. 
Tray Blanch and Sweetheart, 121. 
Treacle, fly that sips, 301. 
Tread a measure, 31. 

each other's heel, 263. 

where'er we, 470. 
Treads on it daily, 197. 
Treason can but peep, 117. 

doth never prosper, 142. 

has done his worst, 94. 

if this be, 375. 

none dare call it, 142. 
Treasons, is fit for, 3S. 



Treasure is, where your, 566. 

miser's, 196. 

of his eyesight, 76. 
Treasures hath he not always, 

435- 

up a wrong, 485. 

three, love light and calm 
thoughts, 435. 
Treatise, rouse at a dismal, 98. 
Treble, childish, 41. 
Tree, die like that, 247. 

falleth, where the, 559. 

fruit of that forbidden, 170. 

is inclined, as the twig is bent 
the, 276. 

is known by his fruit, 567. 

like a green bay, 547. 

my hollow, 28S. 

of deepest root is found, 379. 

of liberty, 394. 

of Life, 181. 

woodman spare that, 512. 
Trees, Arabian, drop tears as fast 
as, 131. 

blossoms in the, 271. 

bosom'd high in tufted, 201. 

tongues in, 39. 

venerable, 412. 
Tremble like a guilty thing, 422. 

thou wretch, 120. 

when I wake, 361. 
Tremblers, boding, 346. 
Trembles too, turning, 372. 
Trembling hope repose, in, 335. 

limbs have borne him, 372. 
Trenchant blade, 213. 
Trencherman, valiant, 26. 
Tresses like the morn, 198. 
Trial by juries, 377. 
Tribe, the badge of all our, 36. 

richer than all his, 131. 

were God Almighty's gentle- 
men, 264. 
Tribes that slumber, 513. 
Tribute, nature under, 396. 

not one cent for, 393. 

of a sigh, 334. 

of a smile, 444. 
Trick worth two of* that, 55. 
Tricks, fantastic, 23. 

in simple faith, 85. 
Tride, thou that hast not, 12. 

without consent, 146. 
Tried each art, 345. 

she is to blame who has been, 

. 3°3- 
Trifle, careless, 89. 

think naught a, 267. 
Trifles light as air, 128. 

painted, 337. 



760 



Index, 



Trifles, unconsidered, 48. 

with honest, 88. 
Trills her thick-warbled notes, 

192. 
Trim gardens, 202. 

reckoning, 59. 
Triple steel, 176. 
Triton blow his horn, 410. 

of the minnows, 75. 
Triumph advances, 448. 

pursue the, 276. 
Triumphal arch, 442. 
Triumphant, death shook his dart, 
190. 

faith, o'er our fears, 533. 
Trivial fond records, 107. 
Trod the ways of glory, 72. 

upon neat's leather, 82. 
Trodden the wine -press alone, 

564-. 
Trojans, distant, 298. 
Troop, farewell the plumed, 129. 
Troops of friends, 97. 
Trope, out there flew a, 212. 
Tropic, under the, 168. 
Troth, time tries the, 6. 
Troubadour touched his guitar, 

502. 
Trouble, double toil and, 96. 

man is born to, 544. 

of few days and full of, 544. 
Troubled, let not your heart be, 

57 1 - 

with thick-coming fancies, 98. 
Troubles, against a sea of, no. 

of the brain, 98. 
Troublesome disguises, 183. 

insects of the hour, 354. 
Trowel, laid on with a, 39. 
Troy divine, tale of, 203. 

fired another, 221. 

half his, was burned, 60. 

heard, doubted, 489. 

in ashes, 236. 
Truant, aged ears play, 30. 

husband should return, 486. 
True Amphitryon, 230. 

and honourable wife, 84. 

as steel, 33, 79. 

as the dial, 218. 

as the needle to the pole, 
268. 

battled for the, 523. 

blue, Presbyterian, 213. 

dare to be, 155. 

ease in writing, 282. 

easy to be, 234. 

friendship's laws, 299. 

hearts lie withered, 455. 

hope is swift, 70. 



True I have married her, 123. 

't is pity, 108. 

love, course of, 32. 

love 's the gift, 445. 

nothing, but heaven, 458. 

patriots all, 391. 

so tender and so, 327. 

to the kindred points of 
heaven, 407. 

to thine own self, 104. 

wit is nature, 281. 
Truly loved never forgets, 455. 

the light is sweet, 560. 
Trump, shrill, 129. 
Trumpery, with all their, 180. 
Trumpet, moved with more than 
a, 14. 

shifted his, 348. 

shrill, sounds to horse, 249. 

sound the, beat the drum, 

237- 

thing became a, 410. 
Trumpet-tongued, 90. 
Truncheon, the marshal's, 23. 
Trundle-tail, tike or, 121. 
Trust in all things high, 521. 

in critics, before you, 466. 

in princes, put not your, 551. 

no future, 530. 

soothed by an unfaltering, 513. 

that somehow good will be, 

523- 
Trusted, let no such man be, 38. 

to thy billows, 476. 
Trusts to one poor hole, 297. 
Truth and daylight meet, 208. 

and shame the devil, 57. 

and soberness, 572. 

beauty is, 499. 

countenance of, 206. 

crushed to earth, 514. 

denies all eloquence, 480. 

doubt, to be a liar, 108. 

friend to, 279. 

from his lips, 345. 

from pole to pole ; 253. 

great is, and mighty, 566. 

has such a face, 225. 

heirs of, 419. 

his utmost skill, 141. 

impossible to be soiled, 206. 

in every shepherd's tongue, 

in masquerade, 490. 

is always strange, 491. 

is precious, 216. 

know then this, 275. 

lies like, 99. 

light of, 419. 

may be, tell how the, 444. 



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76 i 



/ 



Truth miscall'd simplicity, 135. 

mournful, 318. 

ocean of, 237. 

of a song, 242. 

of truths is love, 516. 

on the scaffold, 539. 

put to the worse, 208. 

ridicule the test of, 596. 

severe, 331. 

shall be thy warrant, 597. 

shall make you free, 571. 

sole judge of, 272. 

speech is, 446. 

stooped to, 287. 

stranger than fiction, 491. 

the poet sings, 519. 

time will teach, 531. 

vantage-ground of, 136. 

well known to most, 370. 

whispering tongues can poi- 
son, 431. 

w 7 ho having unto, 17. 

with gold, 291. 
Truths that wake, 422. 

to be self-evident, 376. 

who feel great, 516. 
Try men's souls, 375. 
Tub stand upon its own bottom, 
604. 

to the whale, 246. 
Tufted crow-toe, 200. 
Tug of war, 237. 
Tully's curule chair, 337. 
Tumbling down the turbid stream, 

306. 
Tumult of the soul, 407. 
Tune, bells jangled out of, 112. 
Tuneful tongue, 296. 
Turbans, white silken, 192. 
Turf, bless the, 339. 

dappled, 403. 

green be the, 528. 

green grassy, 359. 

of fresh earth, 210. 

that wraps their clay, 339. 

Peter, 44. 
Turk, base Phrygian, 20. 

bear like the, 286. 

out-paramoured the, 121. 
Turn and right another day, 5S6. 

out a sang, 387. 

over a new leaf, 611. 

the smallest worm will, 67. 
Turning trembles too, 372. 
Turnips, man who, cries, 322. 
Turns at the touch of joy, 372. 
Turrets of the land, 535. 
Turtle, voice of the, is heard, 561. 

love of the, 478. 
Twain at once, 360. 



Twal, short hour ayont the, 389. 
Tweedledum and tweedledee, 305. 
Twelve good men in a box, 504. 

his apostles, 2. 

in the sworn, 22. 
Twenty mortal murders, 95. 
Twice, sting thee, 37. 
Twice-told tale, 50. 
Twig is bent, just as the, 276. 
Twilight, disastrous, 172. 

gray in sober livery, 182. 
Twin, happiness was born a, 487. 
Twinkling of a star, 217. 

of an eye, 574. 
'Twixt two boundless seas, 452. 
Two blades of grass, 246. 

ears of corn, 246. 

eternities, 452. 

lovely berries, 33. 

narrow words, 13. 

of a trade, 612. 

single gentlemen in one, 392. 

strings to his bow, 611. 

truths are told, 89. 

voices are there, 413. 
Twofold image, 425. 
Two-legg'd thing a son, 222. 
Tyber, no allaying, 161. 
Type, careful of the, 523. 

of the wise, 407. 
Types of things, 403. 
Tyranny begins where law ends, 

323- 
Tyrant, beautiful, 79. 

custom, 125. 

of his fields, 333. 
Tyrant's plea, 182. 
Tyrants, blood of, 394. 

from policy, 354. 

rebellion to, 593. 

wasted for, 459. 

Umbered face, sees the other's, 64. 

Una with her Lamb. 418. 

Unadorned adorned the most 
when, 309. 

Unanel'd, disappointed, 107. 

Unanimity is wonderful^ 383. 

Unapprehended inspiration, 441. 
i Unassuming commonplace, 403. 

Unattempted in prose or rhyme, 
170. 

Unawed by influence, 461. 

Unblemished let me live, 294. 

Unborn ages, 331. 
1 Unborrowed from the eye, 406. 

Unbought grace of life, 353. 

Unbounded courage, 252. 
stomach, man of an, 73. 

Unbribed by gain, 461. 



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Index. 



Uncertain coy, 447. 

glory of an April day, 19. 
Uncertainty, glorious, 304. 
Uncle me no uncle, 613. 
Unclean lips, 562. 
Unconquerable mind, 329, 412. 

will, 170. 
Unconquered steam, 371. 

will, star of the, 531. 
Unconsidered trifles, 48. 
Unction, flattering, 116. 
Under the canopy, 75. 

the gallows-tree, 147. 

the hawthorn, 201. 

the open sky, 513. 

the Rialto, 484. 

the shady roof, 200. 

the tropic, 168. 

which King Bezonian, 62. 
Underlings, we are, 82. 
Underneath this sable hearse, 145. 

this stone, 144. 
Understanding, get, 552. 

give it an, 103. 

more sweet, 29. 

to direct, 358. 
Undescribabie, describe the, 474. 
Undevout astronomer, 266. 
Undiscovered country, 111. 
Undisputed thing, 536. 
Undivulged crimes, 120. 
Undone widow, 146. 
Undress best dress, 310. 

her gentle limbs, 431. 
Uneasy lies the head, 61. 

light, remnant of, 412. 
Unexpressive she, 42. 
Unfaltering trust, 513. 
Unfathomed caves of ocean, 333. 
Unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, 2.22. 
Unfed sides, 120. 
Unfeeling for his own, 328. 
Unfit for all things, 347. 
Unforgiving eye, 383. 
Unfortunate Miss Bailey, 392. 

one more, 506. 
Unfurled her standard, 496. 
Ungalled play, the hart, 114. 
Unhabitable downs, 245. 
Unhand me gentlemen, 105. 
Unhappy folks on shore, 428. 

none but the great, 257. 

none think the great, 267. 
Unheeded flew the hours, 438. 
Unhonour'd and unsung, 446. 
Unhousel'd disappointed, 107. 
Unintelligible world, 406. 
Union and liberty, 462. 

flag of our, 512. 

here of hearts, 437. 



Union, music of the, 508. 

must be preserved, 397. 

of hearts union of hands, 512. 

of lakes union of lands, 512. 

of states none can sever, 512. 

once glorious, 462. 

strong and great, 533. 

with its native sea, 424. 
United we stand, 512. 

yet divided, 360. 
Uniting we stand, 374. 
Unity, to dwell together in, 551. 
Universal darkness, 293. 

world, in the, 65. 
Universe, born for the, 347. 
Unjust peace, 316. 

to nature, 262. 
Unknell'd uncofnn'd, 476. 
Unknowing what he sought, 224. 
Unknown and like esteemed, 197. 

and silent shore, 429. 

argues yourselves, 184. 

she lived, 402. 

thus let me live, 295. 

too early seen, 77. 
Unlamented let me die, 295. 
Unlearned, amaze the, 281. 
Unless above himself, 142. 
Unlettered soul, 29. 
Unlike my subject, 306. 
Unlineal hand, 94. 
Unlooked for, she comes, 294. 
Unmusical to the Volscians' ears, 

75- 
Unnumbered woes, 298. 
Unpaid-for silk, rustling in, 133. 
Unperceived decay, 317. 
Unpitied sacrifice, 351. 
Unpleasant body, moist, 538. 
Unpleasing sharps, 80. 
Unpremeditated verse, 188. 
Unprofitable, flat and, 101. 
Unreal mockery hence, 95. 
Unrelenting foe to love, 311. 
Unremembered acts, 406, 
Unrespited, unpitied, 175. 
Unreturning brave, 471. 
Unrighteousman histhoughts, 563. 
Unripened beauties of the north, 

250. 
Unseen, born to blush, 333. 

walk the earth, 183. 
Unskilful laugh, make the, 112. 
Unsought be won, 188. 

is better, given, 47. 
Unspoken, what to leave, 137. 
Unstable as water, 541. 
Unsunned heaps, 196. 
Untaught knaves, 55. 
Unthinking time, 226. 



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763 



Unto dying eyes, 521. 

the pure all things are pure, 576. 
Untrodden ways, 402. 
Untwisting all the chains, 202. 
Unused to the melting mood, 131. 
Unutterable things, 309. 
Unvarnished tale, 123. 
Unveiled her peerless light, 182. 
Unwashed artificer, 51. 
Unwept unhonour'd, 446. 
Unwhipped of justice, 120. 
Unwilling ploughshare, 416. 
Unwillingly convinced me, 322. 
Up and quit your books, 417. 

in my bed now, 508. 

my friend and clear your 
looks, 417. 

rose Emilie, 3. 

rose the sonne, 3. 
Upon this hint I spake, 125. 
Upturned faces, sea of, 450, 464. 
Urania, govern thou my song, 186. 
Urn, can storied, 333. 

from its mysterious, 501. 

loud-hissing, 363. 

mouldering, 359. 

of poverty, 501. 
m pictured, scatters from her, 

Urns, in their golden, 187. 

sepulchral, 368. 
Urs, those dreadful, 536. 
Use doth breed a habit, 19. 

him as though you loved him, 
153- 
Used similitudes, 565. 
Useless to excel, 324. 
Uses of adversity, 39. 

of this world, 101. 

to what base, 118. 
Utica, no pent-up, 443. 
Utterance of the early gods, 498. 
Uttered or unexpressed, 438. 
Uttermost parts of the sea, 551. 

Vacant interlunar cave, 193. 

mind, laugh that spoke the, 

, . 345- 
Vain as the leaf, 449. 

is the help of man, 548. 

loved in, 466. 

pomp and glory, 72. 

to be a belle, 324. 

was the sage's pride, 290. 

wisdom all, 176. 
Vale, meanest floweret of the, 335. 

in whose bosom, 454. 

of life, sequestered, 334. 

of pain, pleasures in the, 450. 

of years, declined into the, 128. 



Vales, pyramids in, 265. 

Valet, hero to his, 595. 

Valiant and cunning in fence, 48. 

taste death but once, 84. 

thou little, 50. 

trencher-man, 26. 
Valley of decision, 565. 

so sweet, 454. 
Vallombrosa, brooks in, 171. 
Valour, for contemplation he and, 
form'd, 181. 

is certainly going, 382. 

is oozing out, 3S2. 

the better part of, 59. 
Value, we rack the, 27. 
Vanished hand, touch of a, 520. 
Vanities of earth, 414. 
Vanity, all is, 557. 

and lies, 557. 

and vexation of spirit, 558. 

Fair, name of, 231. 

of this wicked world, 579. 

of vanities, 557. 
Vanquished, e ; en though, 346. 
Vantage, best have took, 23. 

coign e of, 90. 
Vantage-ground of truth, 136. 
Vapour sometime like a bear, 132. 
Vapours, congregation of, 109. 
Variable as the shade, 447. 
Varied God, are but the, 310. 
Variety is the spice of life, 362. 

order in, 294. 

stale her infinite, 131. 
Various are the tastes, 337. 

his employments, 362. 

man so, 223. 
Varying verse, 289. 
Vase, you may shatter the, 455. 
Vast, antres, and deserts idle, 124. 
Vault, deep damp, 264. 

fretted, 332. 

mere lees is left this, 93. 
Vaulting ambition, 91. 
Vaward of our youth, 60. 
Vehemence of youth, 448. 
Veil the matchless boast, 309. 
Vein, Cambyses', 56. 

I am not in the, 70. 
Venerable trees, 412. 
Veneration, have much, 136. 
Venice, I stood in, 473. 

sate in state, 473. 
Venom, bubbling, 468. 
Ventricle of memory, 30. 
Vents in mangled forms, 40. 
Venus sets ere Mercury can rise, 

297. 
Ver, first-born child of 150. 
Verbosity, thread of his, 31. 



764 



Index. 



Verge enough, ample room and, 

33i- 

enough for more, 230. 

of heaven, 263. 

of the churchyard mould, 508. 
Vermeii-tinctur'd lip, 198. 
Vernal bloom, sight of, 179. 

flowers, purple with, 200. 

morn, gild the, 371. 

seasons of the year, 207. 

wood, impulse from a, 417. 
Verse, cheered with ends of, 215. 

curst be the, 287. 

hoarse rough, 282. 

immortal, 202, 424. 

may find him, 155. 

one, for sense, 215. 

one, for the other's sake, 215. 

slides into, 288. 

subject of all, 145. 

sweetens toil, 341. 

unpremeditated, 188. 

who in his, 226. 

who says in, 289. 

will seem prose, 235. 
Verses, rhyme the rudder is of, 

214. 
Vertue of necessite, 3. 

the first, 4. 
Vertue's ferme land, 222. 
Vertuous, if a man be, 4. 

who that is most, 3. 
Very good orators, 43. 

like a whale, 114. 
Vessels large may venture, 316. 
Vestal modesty, 80. 
Vestal's lot, blameless, 293. 
Vesture of decay, 38. 
Veteran, superfluous lags the, 317. 
Vex not his ghost, 122. 
Vexation of spirit, 558. 
Vexing the dull ear, 50. 
Vibrates in the memory, 495. 
Vicar of the Almightie Lord, 5. 
Vice by action dignified, 78. 

gathered every, 292. 

good old-gentlemanly, 487. 

is a monster, 273. 

itself lost half its evil, 354. 

of fools, 280. 

pays to virtue, 210. 

prevails, when, 251. 

virtue itself turns, 78. 
Vices, our pleasant, 122. 

small, appea#through tattered 
clothes, 122. 
Vicissitudes of things, 341. 
Victims play, the little, 328. 
Victories, after a thousand, 134. 
peace hath her, 205. 



Victorious, o'er a' the ills o' life, 

385. 
Victors, spoils belong to the, 492. 
Victory, grave where is thy, 295. 

if not, is yet revenge, 174. 

't was a famous, 427. 

rise in open, 414. 
Vienna, looker-on here in, 25. 
View, distance lends enchantment 
to the, 439. 

fair Melrose, 444. 

landscape tire the, 312. 

me with a critic's eye, 393. 

observation with extensive, 

3i7- 

order gave each thing, 71. 
Vigils, poets painful, keep, 291. 
Vigour from the limb, 470. 

relents, my, 352. 
Vile, durance, 387. 

guns, but for these, 55. 

man that mourns, 271. 

nought so, .78. 

only man is, 461. 

squeaking of the fife, 36. 
Village bells, music of those, 364. 

Hampden, 333. 

less than Islington, 167. . 

maiden sings, 341. 
Villain and he miles asunder, 80. 

condemns me for a, 70. 

hungry lean-faced, 25. 

one murder made a, 356. 

smile and be a, 107. 
Villains march wide, the, 58. 
Villanies, sum of all, 312. 
Villanous saltpetre, 55. 
Villany, clothe my naked, 69. 

great in, 50. 
Vindicate the ways of God, 209. 
Vine, gadding, 199. 

monarch of the, 131. 

under his, and fig-tree, 565. 
Vines, foxes that spoil the, 561. 
Violently if they must, 397. 
Violet by a mossy stone, 402. 

glowing, 200. 

nodding, grows, 33. 

of his native land, 522. 

throw a perfume on the, 50. 
Violets, blue, daises pied and, 31. 

dim but sweeter, 48. 

plucked, 148, 598. 

sicken, when sweet, 495. 

spring from her, 118. 

upon a bank of, 46. 
Virgin me no virgins, 613. 

thorn, withering on the, 32. 
Virginity, power o'er true, 196. 
Virgins are soft as the roses, 479. 



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765 



Virtue alone is happiness, 275. 

ambition the soldier's, 131. 

assume a, 116. 

ceases to be a, 351. 

cloistered, 20S. 

could see to do what virtue 
would, 196. 

feeble were, 19S. 

heaven but tries our, 337. 

homage vice pays to, 210. 

in her shape, 184. 

is bold, 24. 

is her own reward, 611. 

is like precious odours, 400. 

itself turns vice, 78. 

linked with one, 480. 

lovers of, 154. 

makes the bliss, 339. 

more, than doth live, 144. 

most renowned, 208. 

much, in If, 43. 

no man's, 28. 

of necessity, 612. 

only makes our bliss, 276. 

outbuilds the pyramids, 265. 

she finds too painful, 277. 

that possession would not 
show, 28. 

then we find the, 28. 

though in rags, 227. 

under heaven, 288. 

with whom revenge is, 268. 
Virtue's manly cheek, 371. 
Virtues, be to her, very kind, 241. 

did not go forth of us, 22. 

pearl chain of all, 146. 

waste thyself upon, 22. 

we write in water, 73. 

will plead like angels, 90. 
Virtuous actions, 230. 

and vicious every man, 273. 

because thou art, 46. 

liberty, hour of, 251. 

Marcia towers above her sex, 
250. 
Virtuousest and discreetest, 188. 
Visage, devotion's, no. 

in his mind, 125. 

lean body and, 221. 

on his bold, 448. 
Visages do cream and mantle, 35. 
Visible, darkness, 170. 
Vision and the faculty divine, 422. 

baseless fabric of this, 18. 

beatific, 173. 

I took it for a faery, 196. 

sensible to feeling, 92. 

write the, and make it plain, 
565. 

young men s, 222. 



Visions of glory, 331. 

of the night, 543. 

young men see, 565. 
Visit her face too roughly, 101. 

it by the pale moonlight, 444. 

my sad heart, 84. 
Visitations daze the world, 515. 
Visi tings, compunctious, 89. 
Visits like those of angels, 307. 

these sad eyes, 331. 
Vita! chain, death broke the, 319. 

spark of heavenly flame, 295. 
Vocal voices, singers with, 243. 
Vocation, 't is my, 54. 
Vociferation, sweet, 243. 
Voice, big manly, 41. 

charming left his, 187. 

cry sleep no more, 93. 

each a mighty, 413. 

I sing with mortal, 186. 

in every wind, 328. 

in my dreaming ear, 442. 

in the street, 551. 

is still for war, 250. 

lost with singing of anthems, 
60. 

of all the gods, 31. 

of gratitude, 332. 

of melody, 533. 

of nature cries, 334. 

of that wild horn, 447. 

of the charmers, 548. 

of the sluggard, 255. 

of the turtle is heard, 561. 

or hideous hum, 204. 

seasoned with a gracious, 36. 

sole daughter of his, 189. 

sounds like a prophet's word, 
528. 

still small, 543. 

that is still, 520. 

wandering, 404. 

was ever soft gentle and low, 
122. 

you cannot hear, 300. 
Voices, earth with her thousand, 

433- 
most vociferous, 243. 
thank you for your, 75. 
two, are there, 413. 
m your most sweet, 75. 
Voiceful sea, swelling of the, 437. 
Void, aching, 368. 
Volscians' ears, unmusical to the, 

75- . . 

in Conoh, 75. 
Voluble is his discourse, 30. 
Volume of my brain, 107. 

small rare, 395. 

within that awful, 451. 



766 



Index. 



Volumes in folio, 29. 
Voluptuous swell, 471. * 
Vomit, dog is turned to his, 578. 
Votarist, like a sad, 195. 
Vote that shakes the turrets, 535. 
Vow and not pay, 558. 

me no vows, 613. 
Voyage, biscuit after a, 40. 

of their life, 87. 
Vulcan's stithy, 113. 
Vulgar boil an egg, 290. 

by no means, 103. 

fate, limits of a, 330. 

flight of common souls, 341. 

light, scorns the eye of, 454. 

the great, 167. 
Vulture, rage of the, 478. 

Wad some power, 386. 
Wade through slaughter, 334. 
Wades or creeps, 179. 
Waft a feather, 261. 

a sigh from Indus, 293. 

me from distraction, 472. 

thy name, 466. 
Wager, opinions backed by a, 484. 
Wagers, use arguments for, 216. 
Wages of sin is death, 572. 
Wags the world, 40. 
Wail, nothing to, 194. 
Wailing winds, 514. 
Waist, round the slight, 477. 
Wait a century for a reader, 160. 

they also serve who only stand 
and, 205. 
Waked by the circling hours, 186. 

to ecstasy, 333. 
Wakeful nightingale, 182. 
Wakens the slumbering ages, 515. 
Wakes the bitter memory, 180. 
Waking bliss, certainty of, 196. 
Wales a portion, 390. 
Walk, beyond the common, 263. 

by faith not by sight, 575 

by moon, 183. 

in fear and dread, 430. 

of art, every, 396. 

of virtuous life, 263. 

than those that, 29. 

the earth unseen, 183. 

while ye have the light, 571. 
Walked in glory, him who, 405. 

in Paradise, 512. 
Walketh in darkness, 550. 
Walking in an air of glory, 211. 

shadow, life 's but a, 99. 
Walks abroad, take my, 254. 

echoing, between, 190. 

happy, and shades, 190. 

in beauty, 481. 



Walks o'er the dew, 101. 

the waters, 480. 

to-morrow, already, 436. 
Wall, close the, up with our Eng- 
lish dead, 63. 

in the office of a, 52. 

weakest goes to the, 76. 
Waller was smooth, 289. 
Walls, on the outward, 98. 
Walnuts and the wine, 517. 
Walton's heavenly memory, 416. 
Wand, bright gold ring on her,454. 

he walked with, 171. 
Wander through eternity, 175. 
Wandered east, I 've, 505. 
Wanderers o'er eternity, 472. 
Wandering mazes lost, 176. 

on a foreign strand, 445. 

on as loth to die, 416. 

steps and slow, 191. 

voice, but a, 404. 
Wanders heaven-directed, 277. 
Want as an armed man, 552. 

but what we, 340. 

lonely, retired to die, 318. 

of decency is want of sense, 
232. 

of heart, as well as, 507. 

of thought, evil is wrought by, 

5°7- 

of thought, whistled for, 224. 

of towns, elephants for, 245. 
Wanted many an idle song, 285. 
Wanting, art found, 564. 
Wanton wiles, 201. 
Wantoned with thy breakers, 476. 
Wantonness in clothes, 159. 
War, blast of, 63. 

circumstance of glorious, 129. 

discharge in that, 559. 

first in, 393. 

flinty and steel couch of, 125. 

garland of the, 16. 

grim-visaged, 68. 

he sung is toil and trouble, 220. 

is still the cry, 468. 

its thousands slays, 356. 

let slip the dogs of, 85. 

my sentence is for open, 174. 

my voice is still for, 250. 

never was a good, 316. 

of elements, 251. 

or battle's sound, 204. 

right form of, 84. 

state of, by nature, 245. 

testament of bleeding, 53. 

the hand of, 52. 

the state of nature, 351. 

the study of a prince, 351. 

to be prepared for, 374. 



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767 



/ 



War to the knife, 468. 

tug of, then was the, 237. 

was in his heart, 548. 

weak defence in, 224. 
Warble his native wood-notes, 202. 
Warbled to the string, 203. 
Ward, knowest ray old, 56. 
Warder of the brain, 91. 
Ware, great bed at, 258. 
Warmest welcome at an inn, 327. 
Warms in the sun, 271. 
Warmth, dear as the vital, 236. 

soft ethereal, 177. 
Warn to comfort and command, 

404. 
Warning for thoughtless man, 424. 
Warp, weave the, 331. 
Warrior famoused for fight, 134. 

taking his rest, 499. 
Warriors, fierce fiery, 84. 
War's glorious art, 267. 
Wars, endless, 178. 

more pangs and fears than, 72. 

that make ambition virtue, 
129. 

who does in the, 131. 
Was I deceived, 195. 
Wash her guilt away, 349. 
Washed with morning dew, 449. 
Washington's awful memory, 427. 
Waste, affections run to, 475. 

hopes laid, 505. 

in the wide, 481. 

its sweetness, 333. 

of feelings, 477. 

their music on the savage race, 
333- 
Wasted for tyrants, 459. 
Wasteful excess, 51. 
Wasteth at noonday, 550. 
Wasting in despair, 151. 
Watch, an idler is a, 366. 

and pray, 56}. 

care keeps his, 79. 

in every old man's eye, 79. 

in the sky, 442. 

no eye to, 450. 

o'er man's mortality, 422. 

some must, 114. 

the hour, do but, 484. 
Watch-dog's honest bark, 486. 

voice, 345. 
Watched her breathing, 506. 
Watcher of the skies, 499. 
Watches, judgments as our, 280. 
Watchful night, 426. 
Water but the desert, 475. 

conscious, saw its God, 163. 

dreadful noise of, 69. 

drink no longer, 576. 



Water, give a cup of, 501. 

imperceptible, 507. 

in the rough rude sea, 53. 

more, glideth, 75. 

nectar and rocks pure gold, 19. 

smooth runs the, 66. 

spilt on the ground, 542. 

unstable as, 541. 

virtues we write in, 73. 

water everywhere, 430. 
Water-rats and land-rats, 35. 
Waters, beside the still, 547. 

bread upon the, 559. 

cannot quench, 561. 

hell of, 474. 

once more upon the, 470. 

o'er the glad, 4S0. 

she walks the, 480. 

world of, 179. 
Wave, cool translucent, 198. 

long may it, 491. 

of life kept heaving, 506. 

o' the sea, 48. 

succeeds a wave, 159. 

winning, deserving note, 159. 
Waved her lily hand, 302. 
Waves bound beneath me, 470. 

proud, be stayed, 545. 

sea rolls its, 443. 
Wax, my heart is, 9. 

to receive, 4S4. 
Way, dim and perilous, 423. 

glory shows the, 237. 

long is the, 175. 

marshall'st me the, 92. 

moves in a mysterious, 369. 

noiseless tenor of their, 334. 

of all the earth, 541. 

of bargain, 57. 

of life is fallen into the sear 
the yellow leaf, 97. 

of transgressors, 553. 

on their winding, 461. 

pretty Fanny's, 259. 

steep and thorny, 103. 

the next, home 's the farthest 
way about, 154. 

through Eden took their, 191. 

to dusty death, 98. 

to heaven, 163, 300. 

to parish church, 41. 

which, shall I fly, 1S1. 

wicked forsake his, 563. 
Wayfaring men, 564. 
Ways, amend your, 564. 

among the untrodden, 402. 

of glory, trod the, 72. 

of God, just are the, 193. 

of God, justify the, 170. 

of God, vindicate the, 269. 



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Ways of men, from gay cities and 
the, 299. 

of pleasantness, 552. 
Wayward and tetchy, 70. 
We are men my liege, 94. 
Weak, delicately, 277. 

women went astray, 242. 
Weaker vessel, wife the, 577. 
Weakest goes to the wall, 76. 

saint upon his knees, 369. 
Weakness, stronger by, 168. 
Weal, prayer for other's, 466. 
Wealth accumulates, where, 344. 

and place, 289. 

by any means get, 2S9. 

excess of, 16. 

loss of, is loss of dirt, 140. 

of Ormus and of Ind, 173. 

private credit is, 599. 

that sinews bought, 361. 

very want of, 335. 
Wealthy curled darlings, 123. 
Weapon, satire 's my, 288. 

that comes down, 492. 
Weapons, women's, 120. 
Wear a face of joy, 418. 

a golden sorrow, 71. 

motley 's the only, 40. 

worse for, 368. 
Weariness can snore, 133. 

may toss him, 156. 

of the flesh, 560 
Wearisome condition of human- 
ity, 14. 
Wears the rose of youth, 131. 

yet a precious jewel, 39. 
Weary be at rest, 543. 

of breath, 506. 

of conjectures, 251. 

stale flat, ior. 
Weasel, like a, 114. 
Weather, through cloudy, 378. 
Weave the warp, 331. 
Weaver's shuttle, 544. 
Web, like the stained, 452. 

middle of her, 270. 

of our life, 45. 

tangled, we weave, 447. 
Wed itself with Speech, 522. 

thee with this ring, 579. 

with Thought, 522. 
Wedded maid, 451. 
Wedged in that timber, 232. 
Wedges of gold, 69. 
Wee short hour, 389. 
Weed flung from the rock, 470. 

on Lethe wharf, 106. 
Weed's plain heart, 539. 
Weeds dank and dropping, 206. 
of glorious feature, 11. 



Week, argument for a, 55. 

of all the days that 's in the, 
244. 

Sunday from the, 100. 
Weeks thegither, fou for, 385. 
Weep a people inurned, 510. 

away the life, 494. 

make the angels, 23. 

no more lady, 148, 598. 

that I may not, 489. 

the more because I weep in 
vain, 335. 

to record, 440. 

to see you haste away, 159. 

who would not, 287. 
Weeping thou sat'st, 380. 

upon his bed, 534. 
Weighed in the balances, 564. 
Weight in gold, 395. 

of mightiest monarchies, 175. 

of seventy years, 414. 
Weird sisters, 96. 
Welcome at an inn, 327. 

deep-mouthed, 486. 

ever smiles, 74. 

friend, 163. 

peaceful evening, 363. 

pure-eyed Faith, 195. 

shade, more, 300. 

the coming guest, 288, 299. 

to the roar, 470. 
Welkin dome, lit the, 496. 
Well, last drop in the, 483. 

not so deep as a, 79. 

not wisely but too, 130. 

of English undefyled, 11. 

paid that is satisfied, 38. 

spelt in the despatch, 490. 

to know her own, 188. 
Well-bred man, 367. 

whisper, 362. 
Well-favoured man, 27. 
Wells, buckets into empty, 362. 
Well-trod stage, 202. 
Weltering in his blood, 220. 
Wench's black eye, 79. 
Wept o'er his wounds, 345. 
Western star, lovers love the, 444. 
Westward the course of empire 
takes its way, 257. 

the star of empire, 257. 
Wet damnation, 145. 

sheet and flowing sea, 459. 
Whale, bobbed for, 592. 

throw a tub to the, 246. 

very like a, 114. 
What a fall was there, 86. 

a falling off was there, 106. 

a monstrous tail, 244. 

a piece of work is man, 109. 



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7 



What a taking was he in, 21. 

are these so withered, 83. 

boots it at one gate, 193. 

care I how fair she be, 151. 

constitutes a state, 380. 

dire effects, 252. 

God hath joined, 568. 

has been has been, 227. 

has posterity done, 381. 

he knew what 's, 213. 

is a lie, 490. 

is a man profited, 568. 

is and must be, 180. 

is done, is done, 94. 

is friendship, 34S. 

is Hecuba to him, no. 

is impossible can't be, 392. 

's in a name, 77. 

is one man's poison, 149. 

is worth in anything, 216. 

is writ is writ, 476. 

is yours is mine, 25. 

makes all doctrines clear, 218. 

man dare I dare, 95. 

men daily do, 27. 

men dare do, 27. 

men may do, 27. 

ne'er was nor is, 281. 

none hath dared, thou hast 
done, 13. 

outward form. 436. 

perils do environ, 214. 

shall I do to be for ever known. 
166. 

stronger breastplate, 66. 

the dickens, 21. 

things have we seen, 148. 

thou woald'st highly, 89. 

we have we prize, 27. 

will Mrs. Grundy say, 394. 
Whatever is is right, 271. 

title please, 291. 
Whatsoever thing is lost, 370. 

thing is true, 575. 
Wheat, as two grains of, 35. 
Wheedling arts, 301. 
Wheel broken at the cistern, 560. 

butterfiy upon a, 287. 

in the midst of a wheel, 564. 

the sofa round, 363. 
Wheels madding, 186. 

of weary life, 229. 

of Phoebus' wain, 195. 
When at Rome do as the Romans 
do, 584. 

found make a note of, 538. 

I ope my lips, 35. 

Israel of the Lord, 450. 

Love speaks, 31. 

lovely woman stoops, 349. 

33 



When shall we three meet, 88. 

taken to be well shaken, 392. 

the good man yields his 
breath, 437. 

the sea was roaring, 301. 

two dogs are fighting, 314. 

we two parted, 466. 
Whence and what art thou, 177. 

is thy learning, 302. 
Where dwellest thou, 75. 

go the poet's lines, 536. 

I would ever be, 503. 

my Julia's lips do smile, 159. 

none admire, 324. 

the bee sucks, 18. 

the tree falleth, 559. 

thou lodgest, 542. 

was Roderick then, 449. 

your treasure is, 566. 
Whereabout, prate of my, 92. 
Wherefore art thou Romeo, 77. 

for every why a, 213. 

in all things, 65. 
Wherein I spake, 124. 
Wheresoever whensoever, 378. 
Whether in sea or fire, 100. 
While I was musing, 547. 

stands the Coliseum, 475. 

there is life, 302. 
Whining school-boy, 41. 
Whip, in every honest hand a, 130. 

me such honest knaves, 123. 
Whipped the offending Adam, 62. 
Whipping, who should 'scape, 109. 
Whips and scorns of time, in. 
Whirligig of time, 48. 
Whirlwind, reap the, 565. 

rides in the, 252. 
Whirlwind's roar, 343. 

sway, sweeping, 331. 
Whisper, full well the busy, 346. 

hark they, 295. 

of the throne, 523. 

well-bred, 362. 
Whispered it to the woods, 188. 
Whispering I will ne'er consent 
consented, 4S6. 

lovers made, 344. 

tongues can poison truth, 431. 

wind, bay'd the, 345. 

with white lips, 471. 
Whispers of each other's watch,63. 

of fancy, 320. 

the o'erfraught heart, 97. 
Whist, the wild waves, 17. 
Whistle, blackbird to, 212. 

clear as a, 305. 

her off, 128. 

paid dear for his, 316. 

them back, 348. 

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Whistle wel ywette, 3. 
Whistled for want of thought, 224. 
Whistles, pipes and, 42. 
Whistling aloud, 307. 

of a name, 275. 
White as heaven, 149. 

black and gray, 180. 

fire laden, 494. 

radiance, 494. 

so very white, 398. 

wench's black eye, 79. 

whose red and, 46, 

will have its black, 598. 
Whited sepulchres, 569. 
White-handed Hope, 195. 
Whkeness of his soul, 471. 
Whitens in the sun, 452. 
Whiter than driven snow, 327. 
Whitewashed wall, 346. 
Whither thou goest I will go, 542. 
Who a sermon flies, 155. 

as they sung, 195. 

breaks a butterfly, 287. 

breathes must suffer, 241. 

builds a church to God, 279. 

but must laugh, 287. 

can hold a fire, 52. 

dares do more, 91. 

does the best, 262. 

fears to speak, 511. 

love too much, 299. 

loves a garden, 362. 

ne'er knew joy, 296. 

never mentions hell, 279. 

o'er the herd, 449. 

overcomes by force, 173. 

shall decide, 278. 

shall telle, 3. 

steals my purse, 127. 

sweeps a room, 155. 

think not God at all, 193. 

think too little, 222. 

would not be a boy, 469. 

would not weep, 287. 
Whoe'er she be, 163. 

was edified, 362. 
Whole duty of man, 561. 

head is sick, 561. 

heart is faint, 561. 

of life to live, 437. 

world kin, makes the, 74. 
Wholesome, nights are, 100. 
Whom begot, by, 296. 

the gods love, 489. 
Whooping, out of all, 42. 
Whores were burnt alive, 241. 
Whose dog are you, 294. 
Why a wherefore, every, 213. 

all this toil, 417. 

and wherefore, 65. 



Why did you kick me, 391. 

don't the men propose, 502. 

is plain as way to parish 
church, 41. 

man of morals, 166. 

should every creature drink, 
166. 

so pale and wan, 157. 
I Wicked cease from troubling, 543. 

flee when no man pursueth, 
557- 

forsake his way, 563. 

little better than one of the, 54. 

no peace unto the, 563. 

or charitable, intents, 105. 

something, this way comes, 96. 
Wickedness, method in, 149. 

tents of, 549. 
Wickliffe's dust shall spread 

abroad, 415. 
Wide as a church door, 79. 

was his parish, 2. 
Widow of fifty, 383. 

some undone, 146. 
J Widow's heart to sing, 542. 
Widowed wife, 451. 
Wielded at will, 192. 
Wife and children impediments 
to great enterprises, 136. 

giving honour unto the, 577. 

of thy bosom, 541. 

the weaker vessel, 577. 

true and honourable, 84. 

with nine small children, 600. 
Wight, if ever such, were, 126. 

she was a, 126. 
Wild and willowed shore, 444. 

in their attire, 88. 

in woods, 228. 

thyme blows, 33. 

with all regret, 521. 
Wilderness, love in such a, 442. 

lodge in some vast, 360. 

of sweets, 185. 
Wild-fowl, concerning, 48. 
Wiles, simple, praise blame, 404. 
Will, be there a, 384. 

complies against his, 219. 

current of a woman's, 260. 

for if she, she will, 260. 

glideth at his own sweet, 410. 

I should have my, 8. 

my poverty, not my, 80. 

not when he may, 599. 

one man's, 16. 

or won't, a woman, 260. 

puzzles the, in. 

serveth not another's, 141. 

to do the soul to dare, 448. 

unconquerable, 170. 



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Will, wielded at, 192. 
Willing to wound, 286. 
Willingly let it die, 2o5. 
Willow, drooped the, 512. 
Willowed shore, 444. 
Willows, harps upon the, 54S. 
Willowy brook, 399. 
Wills to do or say, 1S8. 
Win, they laugh that, 129. 

or lose it all, 169. 

us to our harm, 88. 

us with honest trifles, 83. 

wouldst wrongly, 89. 
Wince, let the galled jade, 113. 
Wind and his nobility, 55. 

blow, and crack your cheeks, 
120. 

blow, come wrack, 99. 

blow thou winter, 42. 

bloweth where it listeth. 571. 

breathing of the common, 412. 

by measure, 156. 

constancy in, 466. 

crannying, 471. 

dances in the, 227. 

fly on the wings of the, 547. 

God tempers the, 326. 

he that observeth the, 559. 

him up, fate seemed to, 229. 

idle as the. 87. 

ill blows the, 6o5. 

ill, turns none to good, 7. 

large a charter as the, 41. 

let her down the, 128. 

passeth over it, 550. 

run before the, 341. 

sits the, in that corner, 26. 

sorrow's keenest, 410. 

stands as never it stood, 7. 

streaming to the, 172. 

tell which way the, 152. 

that follows fast, 459. 

that grand old harper, 529. 

they have sown the, 565. 

thunder-storm against the, 
474- 

to keep the, away, 118. 

voice in every, 32S. 
Wind-beaten hill, 442. 
Winding bout, with many a, 202. 

way, see them on their. 461. 
Winding-sheet of Edward's race, 

331. 

Window like a pillory, 217. 

of the east, 76. 
Windows be darkened, 560. 

of the sky, 311. 

richly dight, 203. 

that exclude the light, 336. 
Winds, courted by all the, 193. 



Winds, in the viewless, 24. 

of heaven, 101. 
Windy side of the law, 47. 
Wine, across the walnuts and the, 
5i7- 

for thy stomach's sake, 576. 

good, is a good familiar crea- 
ture, 127. 

good, needs no bush, 43. 

invisible spirit of, 127. 

is a mocker, 554. 

look not upon the, 555. 

not look for, 144. 

of life is drawn, 93. 

that maketh glad, 550. 
Wine-press alone, trodden the, 

564- 
Wing, damp my intended, 189. 

from an angel's, 416. 

human soul take, 4S2. 

sail is as a noiseless, 472. 

the dart, 467. 
Winged hours of bliss, 440. 

sea-girt citadel, 469. 

the shaft, 467. 
Wings, add speed to thy, 177. 

flies with swallows', 70. 

girt with golden, 195. 

healing in his, 565. 

lend your, 295. 

like a dove, 548. 

of borrowed wir, 151. 

of night, falls from the, 532. 

of silence, float upon the, 195. 

of the morning, 551. 

of the wind, fly upon the, 547. 

riches make themselves, 555. 

shadow of thy, 546. 

shakes the, 227. 

shall tell the matter, 559. 

spreads his light, 293. 
1 Wink and hold out my iron, 62. 
Winking Mary-buds, 132. 
Wins his spirits light, 335. 
Winter comes to rule the year, 

309- 

in thy year, no, 380. 

is past, for lo the, 561. 

lingering chills the lap of 
May, 342. 

loves a dirge-like sound, 408. 

my age is as a lusty, 40. 

of our discontent, 68. 

ruler of the inverted year, 353. 

when the dismal rain, 529. 
I Winter's fury, withstood the, 257. 
Wipe a bloody nose, 302. 
Wisdom, all men's, 601. 

and false philosophy, 176. 

and wit, 259. 



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Wisdom at one entrance, 180. 

born with a man, 152. 

crieth without, 551. 

finds a way, 3S4. 

in the grave, 559. 

is better than rubies, 552. 

is humble, 365. 

is justified, 567. 

is the principal thing, 552. 

man of, 265. 

married to immortal verse, 
424. 

mounts her zenith, 378. 

nearer when we stoop, 423. 

of many and the wit of one, 
601. 

price of, is above rubies, 545. 

shall die with you, 544. 

the prime, 187. 

wake, though, 180. 

will not enter, 515. 

with mirth, 347. 
Wisdom's aid, 339. 

gate, suspicion sleeps at, 180. 
Wise above that which is written, 
573- 

and masterly inactivity, 395. 

as serpents, 567. 

as the frogs, 313. 

Bacon or brave Raleigh, 290. 

be not worldly, 154. 

convey the, call it, 20. 

depend for cure, 224. 

do never live long, 69. 

fair spoken exceeding, 74. 

father knows his own child, 
36. 

follies of the, 317. 

folly to be, 329. 

in show, 205. 

in their own craftiness, 544. 

in your own conceits, 572. 

made lowly, 419. 

passiveness, 416. 

saws and modern instances, 
41. 

son maketh a glad father, 552. 

spirits of the, 60. 

to talk with our past hours, 
262. 

type of the, 407. 

with speed, 267. 

words of the, 560. 

wretched are the, 243. 
Wisely, loved not, 130. 
Wiser and better grow, 238. 

in his own conceit, 556. 

in their generation, 570. 

than a daw, 65. 
Wisest brightest meanest, 275. 



Wisest censure, mouths of, 126. 

man who is not wise, 403. 

of men, oracle pronounced, 
192. 

virtuousest, 1S8. 
Wish her stay, who saw to, 187. 

not what we, 340. 

was father to that thought, 62. 
Wished she had not heard it, 125. 

that I had clear. 245. 
Wishes lengthen as our sun de- 
clines, 265. 
Wishing of all employments, 264. 
Wit, a man in, 296. 

among lords, 367. 

and wisdom born with a man, 
152. # 

brevity is the soul of, 108. 

cause of, in other men, 60. 

devise, write pen, 29. 

eloquence and poetry, 166. 

enjoy your dear, 198. 

he had much, 212. 

her, was more than man, 226. 

high as metaphysic, 213. 

in the combat, 459. 

in the very first line, 348. 

invites you, his, 367. 

is a feather, 274. 

is nature to advantage dressed, 
281. 

is out when age is in, 27. 

men of, will condescend to 
take a bit, 246. 

miracle instead of, 268. 

no room for, 209. 

of one, and wisdom of many, 
601. 

one man's, 601. 

plentiful lack of, 108. 

skirmish of, 26. 

so narrow human, 280. 

that can creep, 287. 

too fine a point to your, 9. 

too proud for a, 347. 

whole, in a jest, 148. 

wings of borrowed, 151. 

wisdom and, are little seen, 

.259- 

with dunces, 292, 367. 
Wit's end, at their, 550. 
Witch hath power to charm, 101. 

the world, 58. 
Witchcraft, hell of, 135. 

this only is the, 125. 
Witchery of the soft blue sky, 

4°9- . 
Witching time of night, 114. 
With thee conversing, 183. 
too much quickness, 277. 



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Withered and shaken, 507. 

and so wild, 83. 
Withering on the stalk, 418. 

on the virgin thorn, 32. 
Withers are unwrung, 113. 
Within, I have that, 101. 

is good and fair, 436, 

that awful volume, 451. 
Witnesses, cloud of, 576. 
Wits, encounter of our, 63. 

homekeeping youths have 
homely, 19. 

to madness near allied, 221. 

will jump, 605. 
Witty in myself, 60. 

it shall be, 306. 

though ne'er so, 13. 

to talk with, 157. 
Wizards that peep, 562. 
Woe a tear can claim, 477. 

all eloquence to, 480. 

amid severest, 328. 

awaits a country, 447. 

bewrays more, 13. 

day of, the watchful night, 426. 

doth tread upon another's 
heel, 117. 

feel another's, 295. 

fig for, 140. 

gave signs of, 189. 

heritage of, 481. 

is life protracted, 317. 

luxury of, 459. 

man of, 444. 

melt at others', 299. 

mockery of, 296. 

ponderous, 239. 

rearward of a conquered, 135. 

sabler tints of, 335. 

sleep the friend of, 427. 

some degree of, 324. 

succeeds a woe, 159. 

tears of, 458. 

touch of joy or, 372. 

trappings and suits of, 101. 
Woe-begone, so dead in look so, 

60. 
Woes cluster, 263. 

Galileo with his, 474. 

rare are solitary, 263. 

tear that flows for others', 371. 

unnumbered, 298. 
Wold not when he might, 599. 
Wolf dwell with the lamb, 562. 

on the fold, 481. 
Woman a contradiction, 27S. 

and may be wooed, 75. 

believe a. or an epitaph, 466. 

but the, died, 296. 

contentious, 557. 



Woman, could play the, 97. 
damnable deceitful, 236. 
dark eye in, 472. 
destructive, 236. 
excellent thing in, 122. 
frailty thy name is, 102. 
how divine a thing, 408. 
I hate a dumpy, 486. 
ills done by, 236. 
in her first passion, 487. 
in our hours of ease, 447. 
in this humour wooed, 68. 
is at heart a rake, 277. 
lost Mark Antony the world, 

236. 
lovely woman, 236. 
loves her lover, 487. 
moved is like a fountain 

troubled, 44. 
nature made thee to temper 

man, 236. 
nobly planned, 404. 
one that was a, 117. 
perfected, 539. 
scorned, like a, 256. 
she is a, 65. 
smiled, till, 439. 
still be a, to you, 259. 
stoops to folly, lovely, 349. 
such duty oweth, 44. 
supper with such a, 303. 
take an elder, let the, 46. 
that deliberates, 251. 
that seduces all mankind, 301. 
therefore may be woo'd, 75. 
therefore to be won, 65. 
will or won't, 260. 
win with his tongue, 19. 
Woman's eyes, light that lies in, 
, 456. 
looks, my only books were, 

456. 
nay doth stand for naught, 

134- 

reason, none but a, 19. 

whole existence, love is, 486. 

will, current of a, 25o. 
Womanhood and childhood, 532. 
Womankind, faith in, 521. 
Womb of nature, 178. 

of pia mater, 30. 

of the morning, n. 

of uncreated night, 175. 
Wombe of morning dew, 11. 
Women and brave men, 470. 

bevy of fair, 191. 

framed to make, false, 125. 

like princes, 324. 

pardoned all, 490. 

passing the love of, 542. 



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Women, pleasing punishment of, 

25- 

these tell-tale, 70. 

weak, went astray, 242. 

wish to be who love their 
lords, 341. 

words are, 320. 
Women's eyes are books, 31. 

weapons water-drops, 120. 
Won, grace that, 187. 

how fields were, 345. 

nor lost, neither, 359. 

unsought, 188. 

woman therefore to be, 65. 
Wonder grew, still the, 346. 

how the devil they got there, 
286. 

of an hour, 469. 

of our stage, 145. 

on the white, of dear Juliet's 
hand, 80. 

where you stole 'em, 245. 

without our special, 95. 
Wonderful is death, 493. 

most wonderful, 42. 
Wondering for his bread, 363. 
Wonders to perform, 369. 
Wondrous kind, 338. 

pitiful, 124. 

sweet and fair, 168. 
Won't, if she, 260. 
Wonted fires, in our, 334. 
Woo, April when they, 43. 

her, and that would, 125. 
Wood, deep and gloomy, 406. 

impulse from a vernal, 417. 

to find them in the, 514. 
Wood-bine well-attired, 200. 
Woodcocks, springes to catch, 104. 
Woodman spare that tree, 512. 
Wood-notes, native, 202. 
Wood-pigeons breed, 327. 
Woods against a stormy sky, 497. 

and pastures new, 200. 

in the pathless, 475. 

or steepy mountains, 15. 

senators of mighty, 498. 

stoic of the, 442. 

whispered it to the, 188. 

wild in, 228. 
Wooed, would be, 188. 

therefore to be, 65. 
Wooer, thriving, 248. 
Woof, weave the, 331. 
Wooing in my boys, 599. 

the caress, 485. 
Wool, all cry and no, 214. 
Word and a blow, 230, 613. 

and measured phrase, 405. 

as fail, no such, 505. 



Word at random spoken, 450. 

choleric, in the captain, 23. 

every whispered, 481. 

fitly spoken, 556. 

for teaching me that, 38. 

He was the, 143. 

no man relies on, 234. 

of Caesar, 86. 

of promise to our ear, 99. 

once familiar, 502. 

reputation dies at every, 284. 

so idly spoken, 505. 

spoken in due season, 554. 

suit the action to the, 112. 

that must be, 476. 

to aid the sigh, 414. 

to the action, 112. 

to throw at a dog, 39. 

torture one poor, 225. 

uncreating, 293. 

whose lightest, to6. 

with this learned Theban, 121. 
Wordes, finden, newe, 3. 
Words all ears took captive, 45. 

apt and gracious, 30. 

are like leaves, 281. 

are men's daughters, 320. 

are the daughters of earth, 320. 

are things, 488. 

are wise men's counters, 151. 

are women, 320. 

as in fashions, 281. 

be few, let thy, 558. 

deceiving in, 204. 

familiar as household, 64. 

fine, 245, 

flows in fit, 223. 

from all her, and actions, 188. 

give sorrow, 97. 

immodest, 232. 

move slow, 282. 

no, can paint, 379. 

no, suffice, 480. 

of his mouth, 548. 

of learned length, 346. 

of the wise, 560. 

of tongue or pen, 525. 

of truth and soberness, 572. 

report thy, 194. 

so nimble, 148. 

that Bacon spoke, 290. 

that burn, 330. 

that weep, 330. 

thou hast spoken, 495. 

though ne'er so witty, 13. 

two narrow, hie jacet, 13. 

without knowledge, 545. 

words, words, 108. 

worst of thoughts the worst 
of, 127. 



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775 



Wore a wreath of roses, 502. 
Work, at his dirty, again, 286. 

for man to mend, 224. 

goes bravely on, 248. 

nor device, 559. 

of faith, 575. 

of polished idleness, 395. 

of their own hearts, 494. 

to sport as tedious as to, 54. 

together for good, 572. 

under our labour grows, 189. 

who first invented, 429. 
Workes of Nature, 11. 
Working out a pure intent, 413. 

out salvation, 218. 
Working-day world, 39. 
Works, son of his own, 8. 

these are thy glorious, 185. 
World an idler too, 362. 

and its dread laugh, 309. 

and worldlings base, 62. 

another and a better, 396. 

around, heard the, 204. 

balance of the old, 398. 

banish all the, 56. 

bestride the narrow, 82. 

brought death into the, 170. 

but two nations bear, 219. 

calls idle, whom the, 362. 

can give, joy the, 483. 

cankers of a calm, 58. 

cast out of the, 13. 

children of this, 570. 

contagion to this, 114. 

creation's heir the, 342. 

daffed the, 58. 

dreams books are each a, 418. 

falls, when Rome falls, 475. 

fashion of this, 574. 

fever of the, 406. 

foolery governs the, 152. 

foremost man of all this, 86. 

forgetting by the world for- 
got, 293. 

good deed in a naughty, 38. 

governed by little wisdom, 
152. 

grew pale, 317. 

had wanted an idle song, 285. 

has nothing to bestow, 315. 

him who bore the, 414. 

his honours to the, 73. 

how wags the, 40. 

I hold the, but as the world, 

34- 
I have not loved the, 473. 
if all the, were young, 13. 
in love with night, 79. 
in the universal, 65. 
into this breathing, 68. 



World is a stage, 41. 
is a theatre, 164. 
is all a fleeting show, 458. 
is given to lying, 59. 
is mine oyster, 21. 
is too much with us, 410. 
is surely wide enough for thee 

and me, 326. 
its veterans rewards, 278. 
knows nothing of its greatest 

men. 515. 
light of the, 566. 
man is one, 156. 
must be peopled, 26. 
naked for all the, 61. 
naked through the, 130. 
ne'er saw, 235. 
not in the wide, 454. 
of death, back to a, 431. 
of happy days, 69. 
of sighs, for my pains a, 124. 
of vile ill-favoured faults, 21. 
of waters, 179. 
pendent, 24. 

pomp and glory of this, 72. 
peace to be found in the, 458. 
rack of this tough, 122. 
riddle of the, 272. 
round the habitable, 228. 
say to all the, 87. 
sen-ice of the antique, 40. 
shot heard round the, s 2 7- 
sink, let the, 156. 
slide, let the, 140, 607. 
slumbering, 261. 
so fair, 438. 

start of the majestic, 82. 
statue that enchants the, 309. 
steal from the, 295. 
stood against the, 86. 
substantial, 418. 
syllables govern the, 152. 
syrups of the, 128. 
that nourish all the, 31. 
the flesh and the devil, 579. 
the whole, kin, 74. 
this bleak, alone, 455. 
this great, 123. 
this little, 52. 
three corners of the, 51. 
thus runs the, away, 114. 
to darkness, leaves the, 332. 
too glad and free, 509. 
too much respect upon the, 34. 
too noble for the, 75. 
too wide, 41. 
unintelligible, 406. 
uses of this, 101. 
visitations daze the, 515, 
was all before them, 191. 



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World was guilty of a ballad, 29. 

was not worthy, 576. 

was sad, 439. 

when all the, dissolves, 15. 

witch the, 58. 

with all its motley rout, 370. 

without a sun, 439. 

working-day, 39. 

worship of the, 493. 

worth the winning, 221. 
World's altar-stairs, 523. 

tired denizen, 469. 
Wordlings do, testament as, 39. 
Worldly ends, neglecting, 17. 

goods, with all my, 579. 

wise, be not, 154. 
Worlds, allured to brighter, 345. 

crush of, 251. 

exhausted, 318. 

not realized, 422. 

should conquer twenty, 165. 

so many, 523. 
Worm, bit with an envious, 76. 

darkness and the, 264. 

dieth not, 570. 

in the bud, 47. 

sets foot upon a, 365. 

that hath eat of a king, 116. 

the canker and the grief, 485. 

the smallest, will turn, 67. 
Worms have eaten men, 43. 

of Nile, 133. 
Worn out with eating time, 229. 
Worn-out word, alone, 505. 
Worse appear the better, 174. 

change for, 140. 

for wear, not much the, 368. 

greater feeling to the, 52. 

remains behind, 116. 

than a crime, 394. 

truth put to the, 208. 
Worship God he says, 390. 

of the great of old, 484. 

of the world, 493. 

to the garish sun, 79. 

too fair to, 499. 
Worst of slaves, 338. 

of thoughts, 127. 

of words, 127. 

speak something good, 155. 
Worst-natured muse, 234. 
Worth a thousand men, 449. 

by poverty depressed, 318. 

celestial, 268. 

conscience of her, 188. 

in anything, what is, 216. 

makes the man, 274. 

prize not to the, 27. 

sad relic of departed, 469. 

slow rises, 318. 



Worth, stones of, 135. 

the candle, 156. 

this coil, 49. 
Worthy of his hire, 570. 

of their steel, 449. 

of your love, 418. 

world was not, 576. 
Wot not what they are, 29. 
Would I were dead now, 508. 

it were bed-time, 59. 

not live alway, 544. 

that I were low laid, 49. 
Wouldst not play false, 89. 

wrongly win, 89. 
Wound, earth felt the, 189. 

grief of a, 59. 

stain like a, 353. 

that never felt a, 77. 

tongue in every, 86. 

with a touch, 303. 
Wounded in the house of my 
friends, 565. 

spirit who can bear, 554. 
Wounds of a friend, 556. 

wept o'er his, 345. 
Wrack, blow wind come, 99. 
Wracks, a thousand fearful, 69. 
Wraps the drapery of his couch 
about him, 513. 

the present hour, 337. 

their clay, 339. 
Wrath, infinite, 181. 

nursing her, 385. 

sun go down upon your, 575. 

turneth away, 553. 
Wreath of roses, she wore a, 502. 
Wreathed smiles, 201. 
Wreaths, brows bound with vic- 
torious, 68. 

that endure, 410. 
Wrecks of matter, 251. 
Wrens make prey, 283. 
Wretch condemned, 349. 

excellent, 127. 

hollow-eyed, 25. 

tremble thou, 120. 
Wretched are the wise, 243, 329. 
Wretches hang that jurymen may 
dine, 284. 

poor naked, 120. 
Wring under the load of sorrow, 
28. 

your heart, 115. 
Wrinkle, time writes no, 476. 
Wrinkled Care derides, 201. 
Writ by God's own hand, 266. 

proofs of holy, 128. 

stolen out of holy, 69. 

what is, is writ, 476. 

your annals true, 75. 



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Write about it, goddess, 292. 

and read comes by nature, 2j. 

as funny as I can, 536. 

in rhyme, 215. 

me down an ass, 28. 

pen devise wit, 29. 

the vision and make it plain, 
S65. 

well hereafter, hope to, 207. 

with a goose pen, 47. 

with ease, 384. 
Writer, pen of a ready, 548. 
Writers against religion, 351. 
Writing an exact man, 136. 

easy, 's curst hard reading, 

384. . 

true ease m, 282. 
Written out of reputation, 240. 

to after times, 206. _ 

wise above that which is, 573. 
Wrong, always in the, 223, 232. 

both in the, 301. 

condemn the, 585. 

dally with, 432. 

forever on the throne, 539. 

his life can't be, 273. 

sow by the ear, 612. 

these holy men, 467. 

they ne'er pardon who have 
done the, 228. 

treasures up a, 485. 
Wronged orphans' tears, 146. 
Wrongs of night, 154. 

unredressed, 423. 
Wroth with one we love, 432. 
Wrought and afterwards he 
taught, 2. 

in a sad sincerity, 527. 
Wry-necked fife, 36. 

Xerxes did die, 600. 

Yarn, is of a mingled, 45. 
Yawn, everlasting, 292. 
Ye antique towers, 328. 

distant spires, 328. 

gods it doth amaze me, 82. 

mariners of England, 441. 
Year by year we lose, 503. 

heaven's eternal, 226. 

mellowing, 199, 

moments make the, 267. 

rule the varied, 309. 

saddest of the, 514. 

starry girdle of the, 440. 
Years, dim with the mist of, 469. 

following years, 290. 
'live in deeds not, 516. 

love of life increased with, 
379- 

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Years steal fire from the mind, 
470. 

thought of our past, 421. 

thousand, scarce serve, 470. 

vale of, declined into the, 128. 

we spend our, as a tale, 549. 
Yellow melancholy, 47. 

plain, nodding o'er the, 309. 

primrose was to him, 409. 

to the jaundiced eye, 283. 
Yesterday, families of, 240. 

when it is past, 549. 
Yesterdays, cheerful, 425. 

have lighted fools, 98. 
Yielded, by her, 182. _ 

with coy submission, 182. 
Yoke, part of Flanders hath re- 
ceived our, 168. 
Yorick, alas poor, 118. 
York, this sun of, 68. 
You beat your pate, 297. 

meaner beauties, 141. 
Young and now am old, 547. 

and so fair, 506. 

as beautiful, 263. 

desire, nurse of, 357. 

Fancy's rays, 388. 

fellows will be young, 358. 

idea how to shoot, 308. 

if ladies be but, 40. 

men think old men fools, 602. 

men's vision, 222. 

must torture, 245. 

Obadias, 600. 

so wise so, 69. 

to be, was very heaven, 425. 

when my bosom was, 442. 
Youth, a happy, 418. 

did dress themselves, 61. 

friends in, 431. 

home-keeping, 19. 

in my hot, 487. 

is vain, 431. 

joy; of, 384. 

lexicon of, 505. 

liquid dew of, 103. 

mewing her mighty, 208. 

of frolics, 278. 

of labour, 344. 

of the realm, 67. 

on the prow, 331. _ 

rebellious liquors in my, 40. 

remember thy Creator in the 
days of thy, 560. 

riband in the cap of, 117. 

steals from her, 325. 

spirit of, 132, 135. 

that fired the Ephesian dome, 
248. 
Youth to fortune, 335. 



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Youth, to many a, and many a 
inaid, 201. 

to whom was given, 405. 

vaward of our, 60. 

waneth by encreasing, 140. 

wears the rose of, 131. 
Youthful poets dream, such sights 



Youthful poets fancy when they 

love, 257. 
Zaccheus he did climb the tree, 

600. 
Zeal of God, 572. 
Zealots, graceless, 273. 
Zenith, dropt from the, 173. 
Zigzag manuscript, 362. 



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